ARMADILLO’S CROSSING: A MEMOIR
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2014-06
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
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One night Kathy Lockwood comes home to find her father has cut his hand and can only assume he has killed her mother. Her OCD and dysfunctional life lead her to expect the worse – and often that’s what happens.
Like an armadillo, she sees herself as road kill as she navigates her crazy life in the late 70s/early 80s of Washington D.C. and later Tampa, Florida, told with a sense of humor and comfortable voice.
So while she didn’t have most of the usual teenaged problems like broken hearts and prom dates, she had to keep her family alive – at least until she could see them split safely apart.
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Memoir, Washington, D.C., Tampa, Florida, OCD, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Teenagers