The Bishops Daughter, Honor Moore
The Bishops Daughter, Honor Moore
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The Bishop's Daughter
A Memoir

Author: Honor Moore

Narrator: Honor Moore

Unabridged: 15 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/10/2020

Synopsis

Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him—with his wife Jenny and a family that grew to nine children—from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor of postwar America, prominence as an activist bishop in Washington during the Johnson years, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop's Daughter is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers, and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets. With a depth of questioning that recalls James Carroll's An American Requiem, this memoir engages the listener in the great issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith.

About Honor Moore

Honor Moore is the author of Our Revolution, The Bishop's Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book, as well as three collections of poems. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peggy

This is the story of deep and powerful love, that of a daughter for her father, who she considers to have been a great man, and who was the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Paul Moore was born to the eastern elite, male ancestors having attended Yale for generations back, and in part thi......more

Goodreads review by Heid

Honor Moore's prose goes both lavish and lean for a satisfyingly moving read. The facts of her father's life begin to matter less than the deeply drawn portrait of a complex relationship. The God-likeness of the father who was also a Godly man, Bishop Moore, gives this story moments of universal int......more

Goodreads review by Kate

The first half was slow for me--too many details that I wasn't gripped by. I realize, though, that this is because I'd read about the book in advance and was waiting for more about the relationship between her and her father--and the revelation of her father's bisexuality (which, in a way, correspon......more

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