上世纪50年代中期,当路易莎站在舞台上竞选缅甸小姐时,并没有马上发现她的血统有多么复杂。她的犹太人父亲是一名英国海关官员,1939年,父亲本尼第一次遇见母亲金。金是克伦族人,克伦族受缅甸主体民族缅族的迫害。二战期间日本占领缅甸时,这对夫妻和克伦族人逃往缅甸东部寻找避难之地。本尼被囚禁,金不得不想办法生存。1948年缅甸独立后,在长达数十年的内战中,这对夫妇都支持克伦族领导人。克雷格通过描写自己家族的历史,生动讲述了战争时期的背叛、分裂以英勇的故事。
Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy: A Memoir
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Poet Patricia Lockwood's father was a Catholic priest, ordained after fitting through an ecclesiastical loophole – he was a married Lutheran minister who converted to Catholicism, thus eligible to apply to Rome for a dispensation, study for the priesthood and be ordained while keeping his wife and children. He was also "congenitally naughty", she writes in this probing and often hilarious memoir, which begins when she and her husband Jason, "penniless and exhausted", spend a year living with her eccentric parents in his Kansas City rectory. The flow of memory and meditation that follows careens between her girlhood and now, when she's been dubbed the "smutty metaphor queen" by the New York Times. And the beginnings of that poetic gift? Lockwood simply describes it as "that jolt of connection when the language turns itself inside out, when two words suddenly profess they're related to each other, or wish to be married, or were in league all along." (Credit: Riverhead)
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