After we were married—by my father, in the same church where my parents were wed—we moved from city to city, restless and never settling. We dragged a red line behind us across the map and we did not stop. My family had moved so often during my childhood that this did not seem strange to me; in fact, the belief that people should stuff all their possessions into a U-Haul and move kit and caboodle to a different state every few years seemed to be the only similarity my husband shared with my father. We lived in Hebron, Kentucky, near where they had just begun to build a Creation Museum full of apelike mannequins of Methuselah and Moses interacting with the noble triceratops, and we lived in Keene, New Hampshire, where the LIVE FREE OR DIE license plates paraded up and down quaint Main Street, and we lived in Colorado Springs, where I could see the jagged quartz tip of Pikes Peak from my study, and we lived in Stuart, Florida, which made the dubious claim of being the Sailfish Capital of the World. Finally we ended up in Savannah, Georgia, which is the first place that ever felt like home to me.

'Patricia Lockwood’s side-splitting Priestdaddy puts the poetry back in memoir. Her verbal verve creates a reading experience of effervescent joy, even as Lockwood takes you through some of her life’s darker passages. Destined to be a classic, Priestdaddy is this year’s must-read memoir.' Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club. The premise of this book sounded fun and I could imagine great stories from a devilishly incorrigible child raised in a home with a father who is a priest. There was so much potentiaal, and some of the stories are, in fact, humorous.

About Priestdaddy. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017 NAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: The Washington Post. Elle. NPR. New York Magazine. Boston Globe. Nylon. Slate. The Cut. The New Yorker. Chicago Tribune. Priestdaddy is a memoir by American poet Patricia Lockwood. It was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review and was awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor. The premise (married man with children who becomes a Catholic priest told memoir style by one of his daughters) is interesting but that’s kind of where the interesting part ends.

It looked like an enlightened underwater city with all the water gone, and seaweed still hanging in the middle of the air. Great mermaids flowed through the streets: southerners. The sun shone down because it was a blonde. The cobblestones were the former ballast of ships and the town was famous for its graveyards and every gate was topped with an iron pineapple. The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was across the street from us, and I was amused to see that my old senses were still in tune: I could feel it whenever the bishop was there.

At one point a second cathedral grew up around it, made of scaffolding, and construction workers sat there and ate their bagged lunches and swung their legs. No one knew what they were doing, and it seemed to go on forever. The Flannery O’Connor house stared suspiciously at them all day. She had been a child in that house, with boiled-clear eyes and a watery chin. She had been briefly obsessed with the Dionne Quintuplets. She had a chicken that she taught to walk backwards. The little-leafed vines that climbed up the side of her school had fine penmanship; so did she. She would grow up, and leave, and keep peacocks. Her lipstick would always be the wrong color, but her ink would be fine: black. The sea that had been removed from the city was a force, was full of pronouncement, was equally capable of religious calm. You could feel it, you could still feel it. And over it all, anchored equally in time and eternity, the beautiful laboring sound of the bells.

Priestdaddy is a memoir by American poetPatricia Lockwood.^[1] It was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review and was awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor.^[2] In 2019, the Times included the book on its list 'The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years,'^[3] and The Guardian named it one of the 100 best books of the 21st century.^[4]

Development and publication history[edit]

Lockwood began writing the book shortly after she and her husband, owing to financial difficulty and illness, moved back to live with her parents in her father's rectory.^[5] The 352-page memoir was published May 2, 2017 by the Riverhead imprint of Penguin Random House.^[6] In July 2017, Imagine Entertainment announced it had optioned Priestdaddy for development as a limited TV series.^[7]

Content and style[edit]

In Priestdaddy, Lockwood recounts her upbringing as the daughter of a married Lutheran minister who converted to Catholicism, becoming one of the few married Catholic priests. The book chronicles her return as an adult to live in her father's rectory and deals with issues of family, belief, belonging, and adulthood. Writing in The Chicago Tribune, Kathleen Rooney described Priestdaddy as 'an unsparing yet ultimately affectionate portrait of faith and family.'^[8]The Guardian called it a 'dazzling comic memoir.'^[9]

Reception[edit]

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Priestdaddy was reviewed widely and favorably,^[10][11] with particular praise for Lockwood's wit and the 'pleasure in her line-by-line writing; the author can describe even a seminarian’s ordination ceremony in a colorful, unexpected way, her prose dyed with bizarre sexuality, religious eroticism, and slapstick timing' (Laura Adamczyk writing at The A.V. Club).^[5] Rooney likewise said Lockwood's book displayed 'the same offbeat intelligence, comic timing, gimlet skill for observation and verbal dexterity that she uses in both her poetry and her tweets.' In The New York Times, Dwight Garner called Priestdaddy “electric,” 'consistently alive with feeling,” and Lockwood's father Greg 'one of the great characters of this nonfiction decade.'^[12] Writing for Playboy, James Yeh dubbed it 'a powerful true story from one of America’s most relevant and funniest writers,' The New Yorker praised the book as 'a vivid, unrelentingly funny memoir ... shot through with surprises and revelations,'^[13] and The Atlantic lauded it as 'a deliciously old-school, big-R Romantic endeavor.'^[14] Gemma Sieff, writing for The New York Times Book Review, concluded the memoir positioned Lockwood as 'a formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.'^[15]

Awards[edit]

Priestdaddy was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times, one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Sunday Times, The Guardian,^[16]The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York, Elle, NPR, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly, among others, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize.^[17]Priestdaddy was awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor.^[18]

References[edit]

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2. ^'2018 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR WINNER'. Thurber House. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
3. ^'The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
4. ^'The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century'. The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
5. ^ ^abAdamczyk, Laura (1 May 2017). 'Perverted poet Patricia Lockwood runs wild in the memoir Priestdaddy'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved 8 May 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'PRIESTDADDY by Patricia Lockwood'. Kirkus Reviews. March 7, 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
7. ^Gajewski, Ryan. 'Patricia Lockwood's Memoir 'Priestdaddy' Optioned by Imagine Television'. The Wrap. Retrieved 6 July 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^Rooney, Kathleen (May 1, 2017). 'Patricia Lockwood's memoir, 'Priestdaddy,' is smart, funny and irreverent'. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 8 May 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
9. ^Laity, Paul (27 April 2017). 'Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood review – a dazzling comic memoir'. The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
10. ^Heing, Bridey (May 4, 2017). 'The Good, the Bad and the Hilariously Filthy: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood'. Paste Magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
11. ^Fallon, Claire (2017-05-01). ''Priestdaddy' Takes On Priesthood, Fatherhood And The Patriarchy'. Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
12. ^Garner, Dwight (3 May 2017). 'Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest's Child (Really), but 'From the Devil''. The New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
13. ^'Briefly Noted'. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
14. ^'Patricia Lockwood Is a Poet on the Edge'. The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
15. ^'A Poet's Loving Take on Her Unorthodox Catholic Family'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
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