After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir

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
Manufacturer Gallery Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-06-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Gallery Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-06-02
Format	Kindle eBook