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Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family
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Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Veronica Chater

Chater recounts her life growing up Catholic in a family where the reforms of Vatican II were seen as the work of Satan. This is the story, both sad and funny, of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.


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It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement--an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol, sells everything, and moves the family of eight from California to an isolated village near Fatima.

But Portugal is no Catholic utopia, and the family schleps home penniless to join the nascent Catholic counterrevolution: attending the Latin Mass in truck garages and abandoned buildings, serving meals to religious soldiers, breeding a new member of the faithful every year. As Veronica comes of age on the fringes of the American Dream, she rebels against a fanaticism that forbids anything modern--clothes, movies, or music. This is the story, both sad and funny, of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.

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  • Title Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family
  • Author Veronica Chater
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 332
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Date 2009-02-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780393066036 / 0393066037
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.82 x 1.16 in (21.34 x 14.78 x 2.95 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
  • Library of Congress subjects Family - Religious life, Chater, Veronica
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008043054
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Christian Century, 06/14/2009, Page 39
  • Entertainment Weekly, 02/13/2009, Page 61
  • Foreword, 12/15/2008, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/2008, Page 1144
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2008, Page 72
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/17/2008, Page 51
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/01/0001, Page 0
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