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FiveFinger Discount: A Crooked Family History,New
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Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in roughandtumble Jersey City will steal your heart (People)With deadpan humor and obvious affection, FiveFinger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobsterwannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls a pageturner, Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey Citya place known for its political corruption and industrial blightwith the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades. Navigating a childhood of toxic waste and tough love, Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale at once heartbreaking and hysterically funny.Praise for FiveFinger DiscountBy turns hilarious and alarming, [Helene Stapinskis] book reads on the surface like something by Damon Runyon and Elmore Leonard, with a dark undertow of reallife pain and disillusion.Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIts a brilliant book, a darling book. It is the blessedly modest chronicle of a magical consciousness that seems to have been born pulling diamonds out of the muck, hearing angels voices in the fiercest thunder. . . . I adored every word of this wondrous book. Get it. Read it.Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore SunIn the tradition of . . . Rita Mae Brown and Amy Tan, Ms. Stapinski is an exciting writer, unabashedly candid, and at the same time unashamedly selfcontained. FiveFinger Discount is a mustread.Victoria Gotti, The New York ObserverWhat [Frank] McCourt did for Limerick, Ireland, Helene Stapinski does for Jersey City.The StarLedgerHugely entertaining.The Sunday Times (London)
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