Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian Sometimes Awesome, but Mostly Creepy, Childhood

Dodging Satan is a hilarious and heartbreaking novel of growing up in an Irish/Italian Catholic family filled with religious certainty and ethnic strife. It outdoes Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood in its wit, intelligence and irresistible mixture of realism and charm. It is simply a joy to read. Written in the voice of Bridget, a young girl caught between visions of Satan and sanctity, bewitched in a Catholic school that enforces ideals of the holy family and a home filled w...