Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
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Molly Brodak. (2016). Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir. Grove Atlantic.

Molly Brodak. 2016. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir. Grove Atlantic.

Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir. Grove Atlantic, 2016.

Molly Brodak. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir. Grove Atlantic, 2016.

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   • bioText: Molly Brodak is from Michigan and currently lives in Georgia. Her poems have recently appeared in Field, The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, and Colorado Review. Her first book of poetry, A Little Middle of the Night, won the 2009 Iowa Poetry Prize.
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One woman’s “raw, poetic and compulsively readable” account of growing up with a bank robber for a father (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. 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 and provocative memoir, 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. In Bandit, Brodak unearths and reckons with 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.
 
“With unwavering candor and remarkable grace, Brodak pieces together the years she spent trying to make sense of a volatile, complicated man her family never really knew.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (online)
 
“A poet by training, Brodak writes with great precision and grace, distilling some memories, expanding others; many of her short chapters feel like prose poems.” —The Boston Globe

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   • source: Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
   • content: “A prizewinning poet's account of her convict father and the impact he had on his family . . . 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."
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   • source: Kathryn Stockett
   • content: “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."
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   • source: Blake Butler
   • content: "Molly Brodak's account of growing up as the daughter of a multiple felon bank robber is one of the most astonishing memoirs I've ever read, 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."
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     A prizewinning poet's account of her convict father and the impact he had on his family.Brodak (A Little Middle of the Night, 2009) was 7 the first time she stole from a store. Six years later, her father, Joseph, who was conceived in a German concentration camp, was arrested for robbing 11 banks in Michigan. Here, the author examines the tortured relationship she and her family had with her father. A gambling addict, Joseph lived life with greedy amorality. He was already married with children when he met Brodak's mother, but that did not stop him from starting a second family with her. Their relationship was a rocky one; they married and divorced twice. The second and final time they ended their union, Joseph took Brodak's younger sister with him. While he treated her like a princess and spoiled her with fancy clothes and a Corvette, he sometimes sent the angry and confused teen back to Brodak and her mother "as punishment, or maybe to loose himself from her care during gambling binges." During what would be the first of her father's two jail sentences for bank robbery, the author became an expert shoplifter not because it was "good or cool" but because it was simply a way for her to make money. Later, she realized that it was really a way for her to work through the "pattern of theft that destroyed my family." 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. "Maybe gambling is a kind of wound-replay wound-fascination," she writes, "because it's so obviously unwise that it seems like self-harm." An individual may feel empowered because of the choice involved; but for Brodak, gambling is really a form of self-harm that distracts from the hard business of living and maintaining healthy relationships. An intelligent, disturbing, and profoundly honest memoir. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     July 1, 2016
     Dad robbed banks one summer, Brodak writes tersely. In fact, he robbed 11 and, after being captured, went to prison for seven years. But that's not the end of the story. After his release, he robbed banks again and was sent back to prison. A hardened criminal? Not really. But he was a gambling addict, whose losses were the catalyst for his crimes. And perhaps he was something more: a sociopath, though Brodak isn't altogether sure about this, even while acknowledging that her mother, a therapist, is. Though her father is the central character, the memoir is as much about Brodak and her struggle to know her unknowable father as it is about him. Her prose is straightforward and serviceable, including the occasional arresting turn of phrase; elms with white-painted bottoms are like tube socks on a big leg. But, in the end, it is substance, not style, that makes this thoughtful memoir worth reading.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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     Starred review from August 15, 2016
     A prizewinning poet's account of her convict father and the impact he had on his family.Brodak (A Little Middle of the Night, 2009) was 7 the first time she stole from a store. Six years later, her father, Joseph, who was conceived in a German concentration camp, was arrested for robbing 11 banks in Michigan. Here, the author examines the tortured relationship she and her family had with her father. A gambling addict, Joseph lived life with greedy amorality. He was already married with children when he met Brodak's mother, but that did not stop him from starting a second family with her. Their relationship was a rocky one; they married and divorced twice. The second and final time they ended their union, Joseph took Brodaks younger sister with him. While he treated her like a princess and spoiled her with fancy clothes and a Corvette, he sometimes sent the angry and confused teen back to Brodak and her mother as punishment, or maybe to loose himself from her care during gambling binges. During what would be the first of her fathers two jail sentences for bank robbery, the author became an expert shoplifter not because it was good or cool but because it was simply a way for her to make money. Later, she realized that it was really a way for her to work through the pattern of theft that destroyed my family. Brodaks 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. Maybe gambling is a kind of wound-replay wound-fascination, she writes, because its so obviously unwise that it seems like self-harm. An individual may feel empowered because of the choice involved; but for Brodak, gambling is really a form of self-harm that distracts from the hard business of living and maintaining healthy relationships. An intelligent, disturbing, and profoundly honest memoir.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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In her powerful and provocative memoir, 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...

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