Ebook: Waiting for the apocalypse: a memoir of faith and family

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.