Priestdaddy

The book we're here to celebrate this evening, Agate Head, Stone Soup, is her second collection, but she has not been just idling around in the decade since.

We've had a wonderful memoir, Priest Daddy, and two very hotly acclaimed novels.

Most recently, Will There Ever Be Another You? Also just out in paperback.

They'll be reading from the book and in conversation for about 45 minutes, following which there'll be time for questions from the floor with the roving mic.

Um, but then I've also, you know, chicken and egg, I've had to do this because many of the places I've written about are not [laughs] actually accessible to, to, to kind of ordinary vision.

So I, for example, I wrote a book, I wrote a book set in 18th century New York, and none of 18th century New York is left, apart from one church from the 1750s and a wall now painted an alarming oxblood red color in Chinatown from the 1790s.

And everything else is gone.

So I did do research, and I walked round and round New York with an 18th, with a photocopy of the 18th century street plan.

And that-

As I went

... yeah, it's an extraordinary feat of imagination, because I know it's actually impossible that you were there, but you made me feel that I was there as I was reading that book.

I had this...

But she also just in general studies like black feminism and I think wants something a little funnier, but like enjoys TLC, like Sister Wives.

The last book that made her laugh was Priest Daddy by Patricia Lockwood.

So I don't know if you have anything in that vein, but thank you so much for your thoughts.

Big Swiss.

But what? Okay.

You've read Priest Daddy, maybe? Or...

God, what was the other? That's not right.

Yeah.

That's a great, that's a, yes.

Yes.

But I also always recommend her memoir, Priest Daddy, because her dad became a Catholic priest after he was already married with children.

Wow.