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Also by Barbie Latza Nadeau:

The Godmother, September 2022
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Angel Face, April 2010
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The Godmother
Barbie Latza Nadeau

Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women

Penguin Books
September 2022
On Sale: September 6, 2022
256 pages
ISBN: 0143136119
EAN: 9780143136118
Kindle: B09N6ZV4LZ
Paperback / e-Book
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Historical | Non-Fiction Biography

For as long as it has gripped our imaginations, the Mafia has been tied to an ingrained image of masculinity. We read about "made men," "wiseguys," and "goodfellas" leading criminal organizations whose culture prizes machismo, with women as ancillary and often-powerless characters: trivialized mistresses and long-suffering mob wives. The reality is far more complex.
 
In The Godmother, investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau tells the stories of the women who have risen to prominence, and fallen out of favor, in the Italian mob, beginning with the most infamous of these women: Pupetta Maresca. A Mafia woman born and raised, Pupetta avenged her husband’s murder, firing 29 shots at the man who killed him.
 
Woven throughout Pupetta's story is Nadeau's diligent research, and her personal interviews with the Mafia women themselves. Nadeau takes readers inside the Mafia families to paint a complete and complex portrait of the real culture that has shaped the Mafia, and the women who are part of it.
 
Leaving behind the stereotypes we know from Mafia movies, TheGodmother shows the Mafia in an entirely new light: full-fledged, ruthless, twenty-first-century criminal enterprises led by whoever is strong enough and smart enough to take control.
 

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