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Murder -- Rhode Island.
Drug abuse and crime -- Rhode Island.
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Carroll, Leah
Carroll, Leah.
Murder -- Rhode Island.
Drug abuse and crime -- Rhode Island.
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Down city : a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder /
Leah
Carroll
.
by
Carroll
,
Leah
Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Call #:
364.1523 C319d
Subjects
Carroll
,
Leah
.
Murder -- Rhode Island.
Drug abuse and crime -- Rhode Island.
ISBN:
9781455563319 (hc)
1455563315 (hc)
Edition:
1st hardcover ed.
Description:
228 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Like James Ellroy's My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and
Leah
Carroll
's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore.
Leah
Carroll
's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when
Leah
was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled between depression and mania, was dead by the time she was eighteen. Why did her mother have to die? Why did the man who killed her receive such a light sentence? What darkness did
Leah
inherit from her parents?
Leah
was left to put together her own future and, now in her memoir, she explores the mystery of her parents' lives, through interviews, photos, and police records. DOWN CITY is a raw, wrenching memoir of a broken family and an indelible portrait of Rhode Island- a tiny state where the ghosts of mafia kingpins live alongside the feisty, stubborn people working hard just to get by. Heartbreaking, and mesmerizing, it's the story of a resilient young woman's determination to discover the truth about a mother she never knew and the deeply troubled father who raised her-a man who was,
Leah
writes, "both my greatest champion and biggest obstacle.""--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
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364.1523 C319d
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