Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman
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Divorced from the Mob breaks the mob code of silence and describes the life of Andrea Giovino, a woman born and bred into the Mafia, and her inspirational escape. Sexy and street-smart, Giovino married a mob drug runner, earned a seat at '80s nightclub tables next to John Gotti, and took an emotional and bloody ride through organized crime. Hers was also the task of keeping her children safe--keeping the guns out of reach, washing bloodstains out of her husband's clothes--and maintaining the household's front as a model of American domesticity in her quietly luxurious Staten Island neighborhood of doctors and lawyers, all the while helping manage a criminal enterprise that raked in money. A murder, a DEA set-up, and FBI wiretaps finally brought Giovino, her husband, and her brother to the brink of prison. Defiantly, Giovino chose to retain her identity, facing down threats against her life and courageously divorcing herself and her children from the Gambino world of organized crime. Now a model working parent, Giovino has penned this perspective of mob life largely unexplored by film and literature, and a headline-grabbing expose of organized crime told in a voice readers will never forget.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0786713550
ISBN13:9780786713554
Release Date:February 2004
Publisher:Carroll & Graf Publishers
Length:258 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Entertaining and thought provoking book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This book definitely wasn't what I expected, and I had no idea that I would stay up all night reading it, because I didn't want to put it down. Andrea Giovani's true-life story is less about the mob and more about a woman and her life, the bad choices she made, really based on what she knew, and the way she'd been raised by a mother who emphasized questionable values in her children. I feel like I learned something about my own life from reading Giovani's life story. At some points in the book, I was saying the lines before I read them. This is a great book for women to read, and I highly recommend it. I identified with Andrea Giovani in ways that I'd never expected I would.
A FUN Summer read!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I couldn't put this book down. I am a big fan of mob stories and this was a good one...I am just glad she got her life together and got her kids out of that mess. The author is a strong woman with incredible survivor skills. I wish her all the best!
Divorced from the Mob
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This was a great book from a Women's perspective on the mob. An amazing life that Andrea has managed to get away from. Despite growing up and not knowing the difference between life in the Mob and the "normal life", it seems that her inside intelligence has won, along with a wonderful faith in the family value.Please read the book. It's exciting and insightefull! I'm waiting for the next book she writes.
Couldn't put it down
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Great book. Well-written. It reads as if Andrea was right there in the room with me telling me these chilling stories. Unlike the Sopranos, this is real and these people aren't at all conflicted about what they do. The book does a great job of showing how someone growing up on the fringes of the mob can get so caught up in it that they become blind to how illegal their actions are. Chilling that people like this could be living quietly next door selling drugs and killing people as if it's any other business, and then you're in the middle of it as their façade of respectability comes crashing down around them. Lots of action.
Held Hostage By This Book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Normally an in-between-the-other-parts-of-my-busy-life reader, I just could not put this book down.! Giovino's life is fascinating - what a gutsy broad, tender mother, caring human being despite the hard and , one would think, hardening life she has led. Brozek's writing truly captures her voice.,making the whole experience highly vivid, very exciting and truly touching. Hoping for a sequel!A MUST READ! A GREAT GIFT!
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