Bandit A Daughters Memoir Brodak Molly by Brodak Molly 9780802125637, 9780802189615, 0802125638, 080218961X instant download after payment.

When a writer took her own life on March 8, 2020, at age 39, her husband tweeted into the void: “My partner Molly Brodak passed away yesterday. I don’t know how else to tell it.”
3 years later, Blake Butler is telling the story of Molly’s death & the 10 years they spent together in a terrifyingly intense & eerily spiritual book.
There is a curiosity over every death — we are ashamed to ask “how did it happen?” & yet we need to know. This is doubly true of someone young & promising. And on the most superficial level, Molly’s story is an interesting one. But Butler’s talent as a writer makes this book into more than grisly fascination. “Molly” forces its reader to look deeply into the well of intergenerational trauma, neglect and, most of all, responsibility — the artist’s responsibility to art & themselves, our responsibility to one another as human beings.
“Molly was troubled — that was clear,” Butler writes of their first days together. At their earliest meeting, she flashes her MRI results (she had suffered from a brain tumor) & tells Butler about her criminal father, whom she wrote about in her memoir, “Bandit.”
°°° In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was 13 years old, her father robbed 11 banks, until the police finally caught up with him while he was sitting at a bar drinking beer, a bag of stolen money plainly visible in the backseat of his parked car. Dubbed the "Mario Brothers Bandit" by the FBI, he served 7 years in prison & was released, only to rob another bank several years later & end up back behind bars.
In her powerful, provocative debut memoir, Bandit, Brodak recounts her childhood & attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her father, a man she only half knew. At some angles he was a normal father: there was a job at the GM factory, a house with a yard, birthday treats for Molly & her sister. But there were darker glimmers, too--another wife he never mentioned...