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⚡️Book Title : Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
⚡Book Author : Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
⚡Page : 191 pages
⚡Published November 18th 2015 by Sand Hill Review Press
Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood - In this humorous coming-of-age story, Bridget Flagherty, a student at St. Michaels Catholic school outside Boston in the 60s and 70s, takes refuge in her wacky misunderstandings of Bible Stories and Catholic beliefs to avoid the problems of her Irish/Italian family life. Her musings on sadistic nuns, domestic violence, emerging sexuality, and God the Fathers romantic life will delight readers. Bridget creates glorious supernatural worldswith exorcisms, bird relics, Virgin Martyrs, time travel, Biblical plagues, even the holy in holy waterto cope with a family where leather handbags and even garlic can cause explosions. An avid Bible reader who innocently believes everything the nuns tell her, Bridgets saints, martyrs, and boney Christs become alive and audible within her. While the nuns chide her sinful mathematical pride and slow eating habits, God answers her prayers instantly by day, but the devil visits nightly in the dark. Scenes run the gamut from laugh-out-loud Catholic brainwashing of children, to heart-wrenching abuse, to riveting teenage excursions toward sex. Young Bridget tries to make sense of a world of raging men and domestically subjugated women and carve a future for herself, wrestling with how God and men treat women. Her Italian female relativesglamorous Santa Anna, black-and-blue Aunt Maria, sophisticated Eleanor with a New York Fellini pageboyoffer sensual alternatives to the repression of her immediate family. She prays fervently that despite Gods bizarre treatment of married women... some [girls] might still discover ways to have a great time without being a nun. Dodging Satan is the flip-side of l'Histoire d'une me by Saint Thrse of Lisieux authored by a twentieth century American girl chomping on a blue-gum cigar while she talks to a confidant about God and sex.
Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
In this humorous coming-of-age story, Bridget Flagherty, a student at St. Michaels Catholic school outside Boston in the 60s and 70s, takes refuge in her wacky misunderstandings of Bible Stories and Catholic beliefs to avoid the problems of her Irish/Italian family life. Her musings on sadistic nuns, domestic violence, emerging sexuality, and God the Fathers romantic life will delight readers. Bridget creates glorious supernatural worldswith exorcisms, bird relics, Virgin Martyrs, time travel, Biblical plagues, even the holy in holy waterto cope with a family where leather handbags and even garlic can cause explosions. An avid Bible reader who innocently believes everything the nuns tell her, Bridgets saints, martyrs, and boney Christs become alive and audible within her. While the nuns chide her sinful mathematical pride and slow eating habits, God answers her prayers instantly by day, but the devil visits nightly in the dark. Scenes run the gamut from laugh-out-loud Catholic brainwashing of children, to heart-wrenching abuse, to riveting teenage excursions toward sex. Young Bridget tries to make sense of a world of raging men and domestically subjugated women and carve a future for herself, wrestling with how God and men treat women. Her Italian female relativesglamorous Santa Anna, black-and-blue Aunt Maria, sophisticated Eleanor with a New York Fellini pageboyoffer sensual alternatives to the repression of her immediate family. She prays fervently that despite Gods bizarre treatment of married women... some [girls] might still discover ways to have a great time without being a nun. Dodging Satan is the flip-side of l'Histoire d'une me by Saint Thrse of Lisieux authored by a twentieth century American girl chomping on a blue-gum cigar while she talks to a confidant about God and sex.
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