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Aged thirteen, Molly Brodak arrived home to discover that her father had been arrested for pulling over a dozen bank robberies in the Detroit area. After seven years in jail, he set up a new home with her older sister and remarried. A couple of years went by before he defrauded his older daughter and began robbing banks again. With her father currently serving a 25 year sentence, Brodak's memoir - the first section of which appeared in Granta's Summer 2015 issue - tackles the most fundamental relationship of all: the one between parents and children. In cinematic prose, Brodak takes the reader back through the maze of childhood and youth, carefully investigating its significant twists, and asks: how do we navigate that most formative of relationships once the bonds of respect and trust have been severed? What moments in childhood come back to shape us as adults? And how can so much distance insinuate itself into what should be the closest attachment of all? Confronted with the results of utter recklessness, she finds there can still be space for forgiveness.

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Her compulsive book offers poetic justice of sorts. * TATLER * Her memoir is stark and moving * The Guardian * 'Thoughtful, searching, poetic, crisp and funny' 'Distinctive, funny and touching' 'Molly Brodak's account of growing up as the daughter of a multiple felon bank robber is one of the most astonishing memoirs I've ever read, an unflinching look into the meaning of family, morality, forgiveness ... This is a rare one.' -- Blake Butler * VICE journalist * 'In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so honest, I found myself nodding like I was agreeing with her, sometimes cringing at what she sustained, and laughing - often. I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know.' * Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help *

'In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so honest, I found myself nodding like I was agreeing with her, sometimes cringing at what she sustained, and laughing - often. I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know.' Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help 'Molly Brodak's account of growing up as the daughter of a multiple felon bank robber is one of the most astonishing memoirs I've ever read, an unflinching look into the meaning of family, morality, forgiveness ... This is a rare one.' -- Blake Butler VICE journalist

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Molly Brodak is an award-winning poet. She received a BA in English at Oakland University then an MFA in Creative Writing at West Virginia University. The winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, she teaches at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and has published one book of poetry and two chapbooks. Bandit is her first full-length book of prose.

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