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In the Church of Frilly Frocks and Incense

In the Church of Frilly Frocks and Incense Patricia Lockwood is an award-winning American poet, memoirist, and novelist, perhaps best known for her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times. She is now also a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. Priestdaddy is about her eccentric Catholic family, ruled over by her larger-than-life father, a cantankerous former Navy submariner. Lockwood writes that when her father was a y...

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