A review by mohawkm
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

2.75

The recommendation I read described this book as funny, but that's not what I came away with. While  the author is excellent at prose, and the whole world of the book seems absurd and interesting to read about, there's an alarming "normalized deviancy" attitude about the sexual abuse among the members of the clergy that Lockwood is around. She's not excusing it, but she's not really dealing with it either, and it is disturbing when it comes up. And it generally feels like she wrote about her family because she wasn't sure what else to write about, which left me with an odd feeling - it's an unflattering portrait that didn't have an undertone of warmth nor learning like some family memoirs.
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