Livingston describes how her siblings would fight about who could play with the package’s cardboard panels. “Shopping days were like a holiday to a family of seven children,” writes the author in “Our Lady of the Lakes.” Although her mother, a single parent living in poverty, usually bought off-brand, “or-God forbid-margarine,” sometimes they were graced with the presence of Land O’Lakes butter. of Memphis Ghostbread, 2009) weaves her own memories throughout ruminations on famous mythical goddesses and pop-culture icons to explore what becoming a woman means both for her-as a Roman Catholic girl coming of age in the late 1980s-and, more broadly, within the context of the real and fictitious women who surround her.
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