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| Title | : | Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood |
| Author | : | Kathleen Zamboni McCormick |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 191 pages |
| Published | : | November 18th 2015 by Sand Hill Review Press |
| Categories | : | Drama. Contemporary |
Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
Kindle Edition | Pages: 191 pages Rating: 4.31 | 2219 Users | 36 Reviews
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In this humorous coming-of-age story, Bridget Flagherty, a student at St. Michael’s 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 Father’s romantic life will delight readers. Bridget creates glorious supernatural worlds—with exorcisms, bird relics, Virgin Martyrs, time travel, Biblical plagues, even the ‘holy’ in holy water—to 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, Bridget’s 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 relatives—glamorous Santa Anna, black-and-blue Aunt Maria, sophisticated Eleanor with a New York ‘Fellini pageboy’—offer sensual alternatives to the repression of her immediate family. She prays fervently that “despite God’s 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 Âme by Saint Thérèse 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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Ratings: 4.31 From 2219 Users | 36 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
What an incredible book, such approach in certain topics would make somepeople certainly mad or uncomfortable, but it actually surprises me how uniquethis book is.Bridget and her story at first I thought it was a little predictable, but readingcarefully it really have an amazing message, and I like how the author handlesall the matters of religion, family issues and even the bible with such originalityand filled with so much emotions. I think we can all relate when someone ask usis there is aDodging Satan by Kathleen McCormick is a unique coming of age story about a girl who has to deal with an Irish side and an Italian side of her family. The two sides clash on a regular basis over any number of topics, but are both so deeply religious that they can't help but having a happy middle ground. Kathleen deals with many different issues as a catholic school girl. Some are common for girls her age, such as maturity, a wild imagination that manifests itself in the form of re-tellings of
Hilarious and sad, but a great book to read There is someone hilarious and sad wrapped up in the one story of Dodging Satan. There is the hilarity of Bridget's innocent perspective of her faith in the points of view of her Irish and Italian family. How she believes God is glowing his spirit through her crucifix as well as her father's slippers. Or her indulgence prayer math she does to stay out of trouble during sermons. There is also her fear of Satan and her night terrors and her parents'
Dodging Satan by Kathleen McCormickStarts out with praise for the book, table of contents and then the story begins.Story of a girl growing up Catholic and she's got roots from Italy and Ireland. I remember the cards she spoke of as I also collected them when given to me from the nuns that were teaching us from K through grade 7.The girl grows up thinking Satan is under her bed and she gets her mom to sprinkle things around to scare them off.She really has a philosophic opinions about the virgin
The best way I can describe Dodging Satan without go9ng into chapter and verse is as humorous and compelling. Theres an incredibly sharp and intuitive mind behind the pen that delivers a read thats above all original whilst the theme is cleverly nuanced to ensure the widest possible appeal. I thoroughly enjoyed it and had no hesitation in giving it 5 stars.
Dodging Satan: by Kathleen McCormick, is a somewhat quirky tale of a young woman's childhood. The writers words are engaging, allowing you to be transported back to the formative years of her life. From the nuns that did not appreciate her uncles war stories, to her mothers stories of surviving scarlet fever. Imaging entering church, and pretending to make the sign of the cross with dry fingers, and staying awake at night because you imagine serpents of satan snaking their way out from under the
If we could open up a contest about the worlds most Catholic family, Bridgets Italian-Irish concoction would definitely top up the rating. The clever girl is raised by the tight glove of religion from both sides of the large family, grows up to become the perfect Catholic and evade Satans calling who takes various shapes in her life as a child and young teenager: imaginary snakes coming out of the closet at night, her flirty and cheeky friend Lucy, and the non-avoidable puberty sex drive. Her
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