Priestdaddy
The author’s father is a Catholic priest who used a rare loophole to marry and have children. This is her memoir and possibly the funniest book I’ve ever read.
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It's also a really thoughtful way of talking about trauma related to people that you nevertheless love very much. She doesn't shy away from how hard it was and still can be to have a narcissistic parent who is also your community's figure of spiritual authority - my words, not hers, which are much more eloquent - but she wears her burdens lightly and hilariously at other times. It's a remarkable account from someone who is very much still Going Through It and yet has mind-bogglingly timeless things to say about their experience. Tricia is one of my all-time favorite writers, and I just feel my brain gaining new and deeply weird wrinkles every time I read more of her.
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Robby O’Connor
“Nonfiction works best for me for audiobooks and this memoir is an absolute banger. Read by the author, it will certainly make you laugh, but it’s more than just a ha-ha book. Highest of high recommends.”
Sophia You
“her dad is a catholic priest with a bunch of kids who walks around in his chonies and shreds on the guitar upstairs in his room all day. I love her world and insane mind.”
Elena
“A rare non fiction favorite, and a book that broke me out of a long reading drought and made me laugh out loud so often that even strangers felt compelled to ask what in the world I was reading. The author is a poet who moves back in with her parents when her husband is getting eye surgery. The twist is that her father is a Catholic Priest and Patricia is not religiously persuaded. My therapist th”
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