Bandit : a daughter's memoir
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Published
New York, NY : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2016.
ISBN
9780802125637, 0802125638
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction | 818.603 BRO | Checked out |
Carol Stream Public Library - Adult Biography | BIO/BRODAK | On Shelf |
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography | B BRODAK | On Shelf |
River Forest Public Library - Nonfiction Stacks | BIOGRAPHY BRODAK | On Shelf |
Woodridge Public Library - Adult Biography | BIO BRODAK | Checked out |
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Published
New York, NY : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780802125637, 0802125638
Notes
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Brodak, M. (2016). Bandit: a daughter's memoir (First edition.). Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brodak, Molly. 2016. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir. Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brodak, Molly. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brodak, Molly. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir First edition., Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2016.
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