This comic memoir is set in midwest America and centers on the author's father, a man who likes to clean his gun, listen to right wing radio, and drink from inappropriately worded mugs. He is married with five children and also a Catholic priest. Father Lockwood, as presented here, is a truly unusual man. Upstairs in the family home, he shreds his electric guitar in a prog-rock frenzy and sips cream liqueurs. He has a habit of yelling for no particular reason, cooks a great deal of meat and dresses either in his full priestly regalia or nothing but his underwear.
The author had left home at a young age, pursued a career as an independent poet, publishing on line and developing a following and living a close to impoverished existence. The writing of this memoir was prompted by Lockwood’s return home after 12 years away, to live with her parents, poor and drained after a botched operation that her husband had undergone left them penniless. During their nine-month stay, Lockwood finds herself “jotting down everything everyone says, as fast and free as it comes out of their mouths" and this is the end result.
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