Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
โ Scribed by Brodak, Molly
- Book ID
- 108902831
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 344 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802125637
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โฆ Synopsis
" Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit , her eye is so honest, I found myself nodding like I was agreeing with her, sometimes cringing at what she sustained, and laughing--often. I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know."--Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help
In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was thirteen years old, her father robbed eleven banks, until the police finally caught up with him while he was sitting at a bar drinking beer, a bag of stolen money plainly visible in the backseat of his parked car. Dubbed the "Mario Brothers Bandit" by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was released, only to rob another bank several years later and end up back behind bars.
In her powerful, provocative debut memoir, Bandit , Molly Brodak recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her father, a man she only half knew. At some...
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