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A series of interconnected stories captures life inside the tight-knit but turbulent Codwell family, including conflicted Catholic Ursula Codwell, the family matriarch, who becomes obsessed with such matters as what one shuld wear to see the Pope during a visit to her hometown or how to reclaim her surgically removed teratomas from a pathology lab. A first collection.
The Codwell family is a jovial, tight-knit clan that dines together often and for whom dinner table conversation is repartee as art form. But subtext runs deep, patience wears thin, and recriminations run rampant. A conflicted Catholic and amateur linguist, Ursula Codwell's passion for saints and semantics is surpassed only by the affection she feels for her familyand that includes her precious bulldog. Brought up in what she refers to as the "fraught and schizoid tradition of Belgian Catholicism," Ursula is herself rather fraught and schizoid, personality traits that often threaten to overwhelm her children and her ostensibly tolerant Unitarian husband ("What he generally had to say about the saints was not worth repeating"), not to mention herself. Her indecisiveness and excessive attention to detail lead her to become fixated on matters such as what to wear to see the Pope when he comes to her hometown in New York's Hudson Valley or reclaiming her surgically removed teratomas from the pathology lab. Reminiscent of Allegra Goodman's The Family Markowitz, Christine Lehner's What to Wear to See the Pope is a dead-on portrait of fragile family connections and crises of the soul, brought to life in ten wonderful interconnected stories.
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