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Book Review: Bandit, A Daughters Memoir

By Annell Gerson
Bandit A Daughters Memoir, by Atlanta author and poet Molly Brodak, has been described as raw, poetic, profoundly honest, provocative and gut-punching. Four pages in, readers quickly learn the facts: Brodak is thirteen when her father is arrested for robbing eleven Detroit banks. He serves seven years in prison, gets released, lives seven years back in society and then robs banks again.

How does a kid make sense of a childhood shadowed by such a father? Brodak writes, My family has changed, and Im so glad for them, having evolved past him, past even his invisible reach that hung over everyone but me. And now, it is everyone but me who is finished with him. So she writes from memories, letters, pictures, conversations with family members and research into her fathers past; she tells his story, and in so doing, she tells her story. In short, insightful, slices, both present and past, she lets the reader piece together the complicated physical and emotional picture of her life, perhaps making sense of things herself along the way.

We learn Joseph Brodak was born in a German refugee camp established for liberated Nazi camp survivors. Josephs father aimed to relocate his family to Australia, but several months before departing, he died. His widow and six children would end up in America, settling in Detroit. For the rest of his life, Joseph would reference that change in course, assured his life wouldve been different in Australia had his father lived.

Instead, he grew up in Detroit, served in Vietnam, married and had a child. While still married, he begins dating Brodaks mother. It isnt until Brodaks mother visits the same doctor Josephs family sees that she learns hes already married. Josephs deceptions continue to build from there...leading up to his bank robberies and his inevitable capture. But now, the consequences of his actions not only affect him; they have already and will continue to color the experiences, the thoughts and the futures of his children...forever.

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