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My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman
Carroll & Graf
April 2005
On Sale: April 10, 2005
Featuring: Andrea Giovino
354 pages
ISBN: 0786715561
EAN: 9780786715565
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and
describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family,
and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break
free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying
and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a
hit man and helped her mother host card games for local
mafiosos. As a sexy, street-smart woman, she earned a seat
at nightclub tables next to John Gotti, and took an
emotional and bloody ride through organized crime that no
HBO series could match. At home, she fought to keep her
children safe--keeping the guns out of reach, washing
bloodstains out of her husband's clothes--and maintain the
household's front as a model of American domesticity. Murders, a DEA setup, and FBI wiretaps finally brought
Giovino to the brink of prison. Defiantly, she chose to
retain her identity, facing down threats against her life
and courageously separating herself and her children from
the world of organized crime.
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