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Oct 11, 2017Indoorcamping rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
From the first pages, this is the most unusual tone and use of language that I've experienced for a long time. I heard about this book from the New York Times Review of Books podcast and they couldn't talk it up enough. The author is a poet and it makes the words and sentences seem like little poems, but the total is so much greater than that. As someone who was once married to a cult leader-type strong male authority-type con artist-type figure, the Priestdaddy part of this was something I've seen and experienced. So it was creepy and informative and eye-opening and cringe-worthy to hear a daughter's take on having a father like that. So strong in his own mind, so weird yet so confident and so almost narcissistic. The mom is the one I just loved. And the author, and the author's husband. They're just infinitely interesting and adorable and so happy to have had the opportunity to experience her life through her writing, which is spectacular.