Bandit

- the shimmering world around us.” “Brodak’s story is undeniably compelling, but what makes the book even more fascinating is her in-depth reflection on the gambling habit that drove her father into a life of crime ... An intelligent, disturbing, and profoundly honest memoir. —Kirkus Reviews (STARRED Review) > “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 “An unflinching look -into the meaning of family, morality, forgiveness. It provides an eye into the more personal side of the criminal mind, asking the biggest questions about what makes us who we are, whether we really know the things we think we know. We've all read the true crime accounts of man’s personal depravity, but never has there been one telling this side of the story, at least not one - armed with such patience, poetry, humanity. This is a rare one.” —BLAKE BUTLER, AUTHOR OF THREE HUNDRED MILLION A Little Middle of the Night by Molly Brodak “With expressionistic care and a gilt-edged blade of language, Molly Brodak’s wide-ranging voice reaches into the self and magically finds —ALEX LEMON, AUTHOR OF FANCY BEASTS AND Happy: A MEMOIR