num_pages: 264
description: This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good story with the need for honesty, she creates interchapters that tell the reader what she has inferred or invented. Photographs.
language: English
title: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
titlecomplete: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
genres: 20th Century, American, Classics, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Essays, Religion, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1575
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Mariner Books Classics