Veronica Chater's Reviews
Reviews of Veronica’s Work
Mar.01.2009
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
Kids who grow up in ultrareligious families often have great tales to tell, but the stories of Veronica Chater make you shake your head, laugh out loud and joyfully turn the page...
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Mar.01.2009
Published by The Washington Post
At the center of "Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family" stands the figure of Veronica Chater's father, a one-time California highway patrol officer so focused...
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Published by L.A. Times Book Review
BOOK REVIEW
'Waiting for the Apocalypse' by Veronica Chater
A memoir of growing up in a fanatic fight against the Catholic Church's Vatican II reforms.
By Laura Collins-Hughes...
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Published by Foreword Magazine
Chater, a widely published essayist, gives us an impressionistic portrait of a family immersed in extreme Catholic traditionalism. Written from the perspec-tive of the child and...
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Feb.04.2009
Published by Entertainment Weekly
Every time I think I'm tired of memoirs
and don't want to read another, along comes a devastatingly smart, funny one like Veronica Chater's Waiting for the Apocalypse. Her...
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Published by Shelf Awareness
Book Review: Waiting for the Apocalypse Jan 24, 2009
Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater ($23.95, Norton, 9780393066036/0393066037,...
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Nov.01.2008
Published by Library Journal
In her first book, Chater takes readers through her childhood in the 1970s with a dogmatic father who believes the reforms of Vatican II will cause an apocalypse called the Holy...
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Nov.17.2008
Published by Publisher's Weekly
As a young child, freelance writer Chater learned from her parents that the reforms of Vatican II brought “the Smoke of Satan” into the Roman Catholic Church. Then one day her...
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Nov.01.2008
Published by Kirkus
Short-story and magazine writer Chater brings an ear for dialogue and an eye for the absurd to this tragicomic debut memoir about coming of age in the 1970s in an...
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About Veronica
I grew up in San Jose, California, the second oldest of eleven kids, raised by radically Catholic parents who were on a mission to find the traditional church after it was modernized by Vatican II. This mission took us to Portugal and back, and from middle...
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Sierra Club; Public Library; Public Schools; Crowden Music Center; Women's Cancer Resource Center; Democratic Party