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Lost and Found
Babette Hughes
其他書名
A Daughter's Tale of Violence and Redemption
出版
Permanent Press
, 2000
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Family & Relationships / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Social Science / Violence in Society
True Crime / Murder / General
ISBN
1579620728
9781579620721
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PAAOAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
When Babette Hughes was two years old, her father disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from her life. Although he had been murdered in a turf war with the mafia, and although her uncle -- an innocent bystander -- was murdered along with him, her mother told her that he died of pneumonia, never acknowledged her uncle's existence, and then remained willfully mute about the murders, her own childhood in a Dickensian orphanage, her marriage, and the secrets of her long widowhood.So Babette embarked on a search, not only for the father she never knew, but for her brilliant, elusive mother who turned out to be even more of a mystery. Her memoir describes that quest amid the drama of the times: Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression.Without self-pity, and with eloquence and passion, she describes the ways in which he parents' secrets affected her life, and, finally, of her journey toward understanding and self-discovery.Lost & Found is a story of the struggle to survive and transcend murder, secrets, and abandonment. It is a story of a family captured by its own bloody history. It is ultimately a triumphant tale of Babette's step-by-step passage from an ill-starred and dark destiny to selfhood, freedom, and a transported life.