Leaving my three young sons at home with their dad, I accompany my teenage sister to an underground rave in San Francisco to find out what I'm missing out on now that I'm a mother.
I grew up in San Jose, California, the second oldest of eleven kids, raised by radically Catholic parents who were on a mission to find the traditional church after it was modernized by Vatican II. This mission took us to Portugal and back, and from middle class stability...
Short-story and magazine writer Chater brings an ear for dialogue and an eye for the absurd to this tragicomic debut memoir about coming of age in the 1970s in an ultraconservative Catholic family.
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As a young child, freelance writer Chater learned from her parents that the reforms of Vatican II brought “the Smoke of Satan” into the Roman Catholic Church. Then one day her father announced that the...
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