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| Edition Language: | English |
Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
Kindle Edition | Pages: 191 pages Rating: 4.31 | 2219 Users | 36 Reviews
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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 | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 191 pages |
| Published | : | November 18th 2015 by Sand Hill Review Press |
| Categories | : | Drama. Contemporary |
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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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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. HerRead by my partner, this was a very entertaining read. From the first anecdote about Bridget to the end of the book - it was a gas. This book is cleverly written, finding the humor in the often dry and stale topic of religion. Rather than seeming sacrilegious, McCormick's analyzation of the Catholic faith is deeply personal and emotional. Her novel explores the influence the Catholic faith has on the adolescent Bridget during a time of life where her sexuality is emerging and conflicts arise
Laugh-out-loud, and challenging the Irish Catholic system in both a theological and an entirely comedic way. This mash-up of style works particularly well, and I found it's tone to be refreshing. It's told from a child's perspective, Bridget, who is finding ways to deal with her strict upbringing. Echoing the socio-politics of the time, the subject of Catholicism and religion in the 60's and 70's, McCormick brings a gritty realism to her story, as she does a great job at animating recollections
This novel proves that a Jewish girl can - indeed - find a book about a Catholic girl to be both hilarious and poignant. For me, Kathleen Zamboni Mccormick's novel, Dodging Satan, provided a surprising introduction to traditional Catholic family dynamics, values and beliefs. Even if I were not interested in the culture, I would still relate closely to the main character. McCormick did a masterful job of creating an authentic childs voice, which managed to mature from six to sixteen and still be
In her newly published novel, Dodging Satan, Kathleen Zamboni McCormick portrays her childhood growing up in the 60s under an Italian mother and Irish father in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This was the time when norms and rules were falling rapidly by the wayside. Yet McCormick talks about a Catholic world that seems more like the forties and fifties or earlier. Hers is a world of Satan harassment, holy water cures, saints curing, and bishops and priests scaring people and children to death. There
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'
This is a laugh out loud book of absolute brilliance. From her getting her first (glow in the dark) crucifix to her dad's glow in the dark slippers, she gets a little perturbed at God at first. The book continues on and on. I don't want to be the one to give it all away.My first most favorite antidote was when she and her mom went into this little room to get fresh (not germy) holy water out of a 3-gallon coffee holder. When the water wouldn't come out, her mom tears off the lid and needs a
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