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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. What a fun Father's Day read! Recommended by Phoebe Judge on her podcast Criminal, Molly Brodak's Bandit is memoir about fathers and daughters, family secrets, and single-parent homes. Brodak's father, Joe, was a larger-than-life figure in their blue-collar Michigan community, the son of Polish immigrants who was born in a Nazi refugee camp, and then came to the United States as a child. Brodak tells her readers that she did not know much about her father's upbringing when she herself was a child, but discovered this story when writing to family members in order to gather material for her book. In fact, Brodak did not know much at all about her father. Throughout her childhood, he hid a serious gambling addiction from his family, an addiction that resulted in massive debts that led him to rob eleven banks. This book is a result of Brodak's search for answers about who her father really was and what motivated him to rob all those banks back in the 90s, and then rob another bank when he was released from prison. This moving family memoir made a perfect Father's Day read. A very hearfelt poetic account of a rocky, damaged father/daughter relationship. I sometimes get very tired of reading yet another memoir of a disfunctional family but I had heard the author interviewed on MPR and was curious about the book. A title to be appreciated by a reader who knows the wild ride that is addictive behavior. Pretty rambley at the end, read quickly through the first 2/3rds. No conclusions here, to happy endings, the road goes on. I had problems with this book, but I still want to give it four out of five stars. It's strange. I could give you a list of things about this book that I just didn't like: there were sentences I read and read and read again and still my brain couldn't compute what these sentences were trying to say; the narrative voice seemed so distant from the reader, just like in some other books written by poets (I'm talking about you The Sentamentalists); the philosophical interludes do nothing for me; it's real, so there's no true resolution because real life is messy and uncomfortable and nothing ever works out the way it should, so in the end, one finishes the book feeling unsatisfied. But then, while reading it, Geoff and I sat up in bed and tried to remember the names and locations of baseball teams. I haven't watched baseball in years, since they went on strike in the early 1990s. But I sat in bed and just listed off team after team while Geoff said How do you know all this? Because it's from my childhood. It isn't even knowing so much as just thereing: it is there in my brain and I did nothing on purpose to put it there. Maybe that's why, for all its faults, I give Bandit four stars. It's the thereing in Brodak's brain that comes across in the prose. She didn't chose this, but it's all there. One after another, laid out, for the reader. That's really all I can think of to say, to justify my ranking, because everything else I can think of to say is negative. I don't know. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Brodak went on sale October 4, 2016. I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"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 angles he was a normal father: there was a job at the GM factory, a house with a yard, birthday treats for Molly and her sister. But there were darker glimmers, too-another wife he never mentioned to her mother, late-night rages directed at the TV, the red Corvette that suddenly appeared in the driveway, a gift for her sister. Growing up with this larger-than-life, mercurial man, Brodak's strategy was to "get small" and stay out of the way. In Bandit, she unearths and reckons with her childhood memories and the fracturing impact her father had on their family-and in the process attempts to make peace with the parts of herself that she inherited from this bewildering, beguiling man. Written in precise, spellbinding prose, Bandit is a stunning, gut-punching story of family and memory, of the tragic fallibility of the stories we tell ourselves, and of the contours of a father's responsibility for his children"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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That is what this book is about, how Molly got through her childhood knowing that something was 'wrong", that her father could lie to everyone straight-faced & then smile afterwards....
It describes growing up, her parents relationship, her relationship (or lack-thereof) with her sister & her parents.
It was very interesting and a highly compelling read that I could not put down except to finally sleep @ 2:00 am.
Other than the bank-robbing, she described my sibling to a T.
Only two chapters towards the end gave me problems, where she wrote to explain his predilection for questionable actions. Maybe she was just attempting to put it all into writing for herself to better understand.
Her writing is lyrical & hypnotizing at the same time honest and poignant.... All in all, very well written. ( )