Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Priestdaddy is a memoir by American poet Patricia Lockwood.[1] It was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Timesand was awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor.[2] In 2019, The New York 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.
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 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."