Bibliograph

Down city, a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder, Leah Carroll

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Down city, a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder, Leah Carroll

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrationsphotographs

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Down city

Responsibility statement

Leah Carroll

Sub title

a daughter's story of love, memory, and murder

Summary

Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled between depression and mania, was dead by the time she was eighteen. Why did her mother have to die? Why did the man who killed her receive such a light sentence? What darkness did Leah inherit from her parents? Leah was left to put together her own future and, now in her memoir, she explores the mystery of her parents' lives, through interviews, photos, and police records. A wrenching memoir of a broken family and an indelible portrait of Rhode Island- a tiny state where the ghosts of mafia kingpins live alongside the feisty, stubborn people working hard just to get by

Target audience

adult

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Daughter's story of love, memory, and murder

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