Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History

Stapinski, Helene. Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History. NY: Random, 2001. With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls “a page-turner,” Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City—a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight—with 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.

Author(s): Helene Stapinski
Date of release: 2001
Origin of Work: USA
Categoty: Book
Theme(Topic): History, Memoir, Biography, Literature
Original Vendor/Source: Unknown
Details of damage: Used-Very Good