Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthyBlending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange

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