After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir

After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir

â€œA searing memoir of loss and redemption.â€ â€”People

In the tradition of New York Times bestsellers What Remains by Carole Radziwill and Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey, Christina McDowellâ€™s unflinching memoir is a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one familyâ€™s destruction in the wake of the Wall Street implosion.

Christina McDowell was born Christina Prousalis. She had to change her name to be legally extricated from the trail of chaos her father, Tom Prousalis, left in the wake of his arrest and subsequent imprisonment as one of the guilty players sucked into the collateral fallout of Jordan Belfort (the â€œWolf of Wall Streetâ€). Christina worshipped her father and the seemingly perfect life they livedâ€¦a life she finds out was built on lies. Christinaâ€™s family, as is typically the case, had no idea what was going on. Nineteen-year-old Christina drove her father to jail while her mother dissolved in denial.

Since then, Christinaâ€™s life has been decimated. As her family floundered in rehab, depression, homelessness, and loss, Christina succumbed to the grip of alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity before finding catharsis in the most unlikely of places. From the bucolic affluence of suburban Washington, DC, to the A-list clubs and seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, this provocative memoir unflinchingly describes the harsh realities of a fall from grace. Full of nineties nostalgia and access to the inner circles of the Washingtonian societal elite, Christina McDowellâ€™s beautiful memoir is a Blue Jasmine story from a daughterâ€™s perspective.
Country USA
Manufacturer Gallery Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-06-02
UnitCount 3
EANs 9781476785325

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Gallery Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-06-02
UnitCount	3
EANs	9781476785325

After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir

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