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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

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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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Let me just say that this could be one of the funniest books I have ever read! Kathleen Zamoboni McCormick has a real gift for writing comedy, and 'Dodging Satan' is going to have Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, and even atheists like me, rolling on the floor laughing. I wasn't brought up in a religious household, but I can imagine many women that were will really relate to the hilarious musings of young Bridget Flagherty. As part of an Irish/Italian Catholic family that has a number of

Dodging 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

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.

Let me just say that this could be one of the funniest books I have ever read! Kathleen Zamoboni McCormick has a real gift for writing comedy, and 'Dodging Satan' is going to have Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, and even atheists like me, rolling on the floor laughing. I wasn't brought up in a religious household, but I can imagine many women that were will really relate to the hilarious musings of young Bridget Flagherty. As part of an Irish/Italian Catholic family that has a number of

The story follows the growing up of a young catholic girl born of an Italian mother to an Irish father, she seems to struggle with the worst aspects of both cultures. The book is very well-written and draws you into Bridgets world, which is utterly dominated by Catholicism. If she works hard and gains good results at school, she is chided for the sin of pride; if she underachieves she is wasting her God-given talents! As a teacher, I was horrified by the constant undermining that she suffered

Dodging Satan is an excellently written story about a girl trying to figure out her religion and her families values as she grows up. Kathleen McCormick does a great job of describing her feelings and the things she saw. This story has a great flow and is very descriptive so that you can feel what everyone feels that is in the room with Kathleen. You learn how she got to where she is today and who supported her and who turned away from her. Dodging Satan is a great book that will transport you