Waiting for the apocalypse: a memoir of faith and family

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The smoke of Satan -- Praying for Russia -- Dubious friends -- Dispose of all your worldly possessions and follow me -- Halfway to nowhere -- Not quite paradise -- Secondhand smoke -- Fields and dreams -- Utopia lost -- Strangers at home -- In search of a lost God -- Counter-revolution 101 -- Fissures -- Infant ponderings -- A death of sorts -- A birth of sorts -- Epilogue.;Recounts the author's unusual early life growing up in a large, very conservative Catholic family soon after the changes resulting from the Second Vatican Council, dealing with the family's extreme reaction to these changes with humor and openness. The smoke of Satan -- Praying for Russia -- Dubious friends -- Dispose of all your worldly possessions and follow me -- Halfway to nowhere -- Not quite paradise -- Secondhand smoke -- Fields and dreams -- Utopia lost -- Strangers at home -- In search of a lost God -- Counter-revolution 101 -- Fissures -- Infant ponderings -- A death of sorts -- A birth of sorts -- Epilogue.