What's it about? From Grand Central Publishing:
"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."
"Leah Carroll lives in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Emerson College, and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Florida. She is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony." You can connect with Leah on her website and follow her on Twitter.
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12 comments:
This sounds right up my alley! Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for this captivating story.
Sounds like a fascinating, tragic story--and I know Grand Central Publishing is excellent!
It sounds like my kind of book. I haven't read one by this author before, but I'm looking forward to it.
Sounds like a very moving story of a courageous young woman. It is hard escaping our past. I would love to read this. Thanks for the giveaway.
What a strange childhood to have had, I'd love to read more about it. Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
I would love to read this book.
I would like to read Down City !
Thanks for the giveaway!
oh I love discovering new authors...I'm reading a very good book right now that I found in the Dollarama !! I've actually found a few good books there recently (Where I've had to wishlist the next books in the series on my amazon account!!)
Thanks for the great giveaway and for the chance to win!
This book has a very interesting storyline.
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