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

by Kathleen Zamboni McCormick · 2015

Sometimes glib, sometimes profound, the musings of young Bridget Flagherty will have many a Catholic (and a lot of others) in stitches. As an impressionable child, Bridget is frightened by Catholic iconography - the snake at Mary's feet multiply in her dresser drawers and the devil is everywhere. But what do they really symbolize? Sexuality, clashes between her Irish and Italian families, even garlic and leather handbags are sources of family anxiety. For a while, Bridget creates supernatural worlds that resolve the tensions of real life, performing exorcisms, creating relics, and discovering

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