ASIN: B008BK25EK
Publisher: SagisBooks Publishers Inc.
Pages: 327
"The Bookie's Daughter" reads like a car chase scene from a summer blockbuster. Heather Abraham's memoir of a criminal childhood filled with intimate violence is brazen and life is stranger than fiction hilarious. Her insanely alcoholic mother Bonnie survived a violent childhood to become a violent mother incapable of tenderness. Big Al, Abraham's father, was a real life giant with colossal addictions to explosives, gambling, food and adventure. Al's "dark passengers" kept him in constant pursuit of money and his family in constant chaos and danger. The crew of criminals that populated "family" life for Heather included Appalachian pyromaniacs, IRA gun runners, pimps, pedophiles, skin runners, assassins and a hellfire damnation evangelical con man. This memoir is a love letter, indictment and writ of pardon for a certifiably insane and addicted family. Yet, "The Bookie's Daughter" is ...
