Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

Poet Brodak's (A Little Middle of the Night) childhood wasn't typical. When she was 13, her father went on a crime spree and robbed 11 banks. Nicknamed by the FBI as the "Mario Brothers Bandit," Brodak's father was no criminal mastermind, but he was a mystery man to her sister and herself, full of rage as well as love. Hostages to their father's criminality, the two girls were forced to face friends, classmates, and neighbors after he was convicted. In this searing memoir, Brodak reexamines her childhood, searching desperately for the red flags that might have given the family a clue about what kind of amoral man her father truly was. Narrator Emily Woo Zeller (AudioFile Earphone Award winner) does an excellent job voicing Brodak and her family. Zeller narrates Joseph Brodak so well that it makes even the listener half fall for his charms and scams.