After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir

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After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir

A â€œsearing memoir of loss and redemptionâ€ (People) that â€œexposes the side of The Wolf of Wall Street we didnâ€™t get to seeâ€ (Metro), After Perfect is a cautionary tale about one familyâ€™s destruction in the wake of the Wall Street implosion.

Selected as one of the yearâ€™s â€œFifteen Books You Need to Readâ€ by the Village Voice, Christina McDowellâ€™s unflinching memoir is â€œa tale of the American Dream upended.â€ Growing up in an affluent Washington, DC, suburb, Christina and her sisters were surrounded by the elite: summering on Nantucket Island, speeding down Capitol Hillâ€™s rich back roads, flying in their fatherâ€™s private plane. Their life of luxury was brutally stripped away after the FBI arrested Tom Prousalis on fraud charges. When he took a plea deal as he faced the notorious Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfortâ€™s testifying against him, the cars, homes, jewelry, clothes, and friends that defined the family disappeared before their eyes, including the one thing they could never get back: each other.

Christina writes with candid clarity about the dark years that followed and the devastation her fatherâ€™s crimes wrought upon her family: the debt accumulated under her identity; her motherâ€™s breakdown; her own spiral into addiction and promiscuity; and the delusion that enveloped them all. She shines a remarkable, uncomfortable light on a familyâ€™s disintegration and takes a searing look at a controversial financial time and also at herself, a child whose â€œnormalâ€ belonged only to the one percent. A rare, insiderâ€™s perspective on the collateral damage of a fall from grace, After Perfect is a poignant reflection on the astounding pace at which a life can change and how blind we can be to the ugly truth.

Country	USA
Author	Christina McDowell
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781476785424
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Gallery Books
Manufacturer	Gallery Books
NumberOfPages	321
PublicationDate	2015-06-02
Publisher	Gallery Books
ReleaseDate	2015-06-02
Studio	Gallery Books

After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir

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