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Mary McCarthy (author of The Group and The Company She Keeps) recounts her changing relationship to Catholicism in this darkly funny, punchy memoir.
Newly published as part of Fitzcarraldo's non-fiction collection, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood chronicles the life of an American girlhood steeped in Irish-Catholic Orthodoxy.
When her parents die young, Mary McCarthy and her three siblings are taken under the care of her disciplinarian Irish grandmother and later, her uncle and aunts.
From having mouths taped to prevent 'mouth-breathing', to having castor oil snuck into their juice, the McCarthy kids endure the sting of orthodox upbringing and Mary finds herself questioning her relationship to God.
A bolshy, sharp memoir that explores religion, the messiness of womanhood and finding meaning in post-religious life.
Examining the changing structure of religious hierarchy and class in America, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood offers a spiky taste of America in the 1960s.