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The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!
St. Martin's Press
February 2012
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Featuring: Karen Gravano
256 pages
ISBN: 1250003059
EAN: 9781250003058
Kindle: B00603QQBS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show
Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood,
where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and
betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy
“the Bull” Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared hit
men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino
Crime Family underboss—and John Gotti’s right-hand man—is
the highest ranking gangster ever to turn State’s evidence
and testify against members of his high-profile crime
family. But to Karen, Sammy Gravano was a sometimes
elusive but always loving father figure. He was
ever-present at the head of the dinner table. He made a
living running a construction firm and several nightclubs.
He stayed out late, and sometimes he didn’t come home at
all. He hosted “secret” meetings at their house, and had
countless whispered conversations with “business
associates.” By the age of twelve, Karen knew he was a
gangster. And as she grew up, while her peers worried about
clothes and schoolwork, she was coming face-to-face with
crime and murder. Gravano was nineteen years old when her
father turned his back on the mob and cooperated with the
Feds. The fabric of her family was ripped apart, and they
were instantly rejected by the communities they grew up
in. This is the story of a daughter’s struggle to
reconcile the image of her loving father with that of a
murdering Mafioso, and how, in healing the rift between the
two, she was able to forge a new life.
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