title: Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman
author: Andrea Giovino
description: When Giovino was growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, her mother hosted an illegal gambling operation for some mob-connected guys two days a week in the family's basement. Apart from the money, this boosted her mother's prestige, since "in a poor neighborhood, even being close to criminals was a status symbol." After seventh grade, Giovino dropped out of school and spent her days doing odd jobs and babysitting; nights were for cruising the clubs, and she ended up pregnant and married. Husband number one folded fast, but in spite of Giovino's insistence that "[m]otherhood made me flame-retardant," she spent the next few decades falling for a series of wrong guys. Giovino's problem? She was attracted to rich and powerful men, which, where she lived, meant men connected with the mob. Eventually, she was arrested in a DEA sting and decided to come clean. In spite of occasional spurts of psychology jargon (her mom "negatively... influenced our psychological development," etc.), Giovino's voice rings true. She'll gush about her latest love, and then"as if sensing readers' skepticism"snarl, "So fucking what if maybe all that is just clich on top of clich." Later, Giovino considers the camaraderie between her husband and his buddy after they whacked someone: "Once you killed with somebody it was like getting married, a kind of private ceremony, but since nobody could keep their mouths completely shut... it was a public declaration of your commitment to each other.... It's sick and sad that it takes murder to bring men together." Great literature it's not, but Giovino's memoir is raw and very real. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: POWER
  MAFIA TIES: BRANDON & CARLY #2
  
  FIONA DAVENPORT
  
  CONTENTS
  Power
  You are the love
  1. Carly
  2. Brandon
  3. Carly
  4. Brandon
  5. Carly
  6. Brandon
  7. Carly
  8. Brandon
  9. Carly
  Passion
  About the Author
  
  © 2016 Fiona Davenport
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