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From Goodreads:
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met — a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972.” His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory, their two worlds collide.
In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence — from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group — with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother.
Rapid Rating: High.
Profanity includes 2 uses of strong language, around 30 instances of moderate profanity, about 15 uses of mild language, and about 25 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes frequent vulgar references; one chapter is devoted to a particular crude topic. There are some brief mentions of sexual abuse of children by a priest, and a young man’s suicide. Some references to drug and alcohol abuse.
