I read this aloud to Maggee over the Christmas holidays.

A wonderful portrait of a perfect 1950's middle-American Catholic family... except that they are not quite what they seem to be. We see their world through the eyes of Cathy from age four through her early teen years. Cathy begins working in her father's drug store from the age of four (on the recommendation of a psychologist who can't think of a better way of coping with her excess energy). She travels about with her friend Roy delivering prescriptions all over the county, and filtering her experiences through her youthfully fragmented picture of the world to hilarious effect.

Maggee was raised Catholic and could relate on a personal level to some the stories about Sister Agnese and Cathy's school and church experiences.

We'll hang onto this one until fookisses has a chance to read it and then we will probably send it to Maggee's sister.