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In this deeply personal account, veteran journalist O'Connor's decides to explore the mysteries of his childhood: In September 1998, a year after our mother died, I finally found the courage to look inside my father's battered, taped-together cigar box, with the brand Tampa Nugget in embossed gold lettering on a red border. Over the course of more than 300 pages, O'Connor hints at some dark secret that drove his father to suddenly move the family from Texas to Mexico and back in the 1950s. Rushing, almost running at the end because we could feel the breath of whatever was chasing us, Dad and I jammed our things into the back of the black-and-white station wagon. he writes. But for all of O'Connor's journalistic credentials—CBS News, the New York Times and NPR—the pace is sluggish as he uncoils his tales of late-night border crossings, parental double-speak and ongoing misdirection. In the end, O'Connor finds his father was a petty criminal, on the run from his own scams, and his mother was caught up in the McCarthy-era red scare. Not that every memoir must have some nearly unspeakable grotesquerie at its core, but O'Connor's story lacks the emotional wallop to justify wading through it. (Aug.)
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*Starred Review* O'Connor grew up on the run with his family, throwing their possessions together in a rush to flee the U.S. across the border into Mexico, then weeks, months, or years later, just as frantically throwing possessions together to return to the U.S., always crossing at odd hours or weak border points with a contrived story about a weary, cheerful tourist family. As he grew up, his family, "turning against the obvious and the logical," found comfort in one another—a family bound by its flight. At an early age, O'Connor developed the skills of the foreign correspondent he would eventually become. Quickly absorbing new cultures, he worked for a while in Mexico as a pimp, an unofficial tour guide, a pillow salesman in the slums. He felt a growing rift with his parents as hardships and instability finally wore down his confidence and heightened his anxiety about the secret that kept them running. After his parents' deaths, O'Connor reluctantly began the process of peeling back their history, discovering a family he never knew he had and unlocking the secret that kept his parents running most of their lives. A riveting tale of family secrets and national politics. Bush, Vanessa
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In this deeply personal account, veteran journalist O'Connor's decides to explore the mysteries of his childhood: In September 1998, a year after our mother died, I finally found the courage to look inside my father's battered, taped-together cigar box, with the brand Tampa Nugget in embossed gold lettering on a red border. Over the course of more than 300 pages, O'Connor hints at some dark secret that drove his father to suddenly move the family from Texas to Mexico and back in the 1950s. Rushing, almost running at the end because we could feel the breath of whatever was chasing us, Dad and I jammed our things into the back of the black-and-white station wagon. he writes. But for all of O'Connor's journalistic credentials—CBS News, the New York Times and NPR—the pace is sluggish as he uncoils his tales of late-night border crossings, parental double-speak and ongoing misdirection. In the end, O'Connor finds his father was a petty criminal, on the run from his own scams, and his mother was caught up in the McCarthy-era red scare. Not that every memoir must have some nearly unspeakable grotesquerie at its core, but O'Connor's story lacks the emotional wallop to justify wading through it. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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*Starred Review* O'Connor grew up on the run with his family, throwing their possessions together in a rush to flee the U.S. across the border into Mexico, then weeks, months, or years later, just as frantically throwing possessions together to return to the U.S., always crossing at odd hours or weak border points with a contrived story about a weary, cheerful tourist family. As he grew up, his family, "turning against the obvious and the logical," found comfort in one another—a family bound by its flight. At an early age, O'Connor developed the skills of the foreign correspondent he would eventually become. Quickly absorbing new cultures, he worked for a while in Mexico as a pimp, an unofficial tour guide, a pillow salesman in the slums. He felt a growing rift with his parents as hardships and instability finally wore down his confidence and heightened his anxiety about the secret that kept them running. After his parents' deaths, O'Connor reluctantly began the process of peeling back their history, discovering a family he never knew he had and unlocking the secret that kept his parents running most of their lives. A riveting tale of family secrets and national politics. Bush, Vanessa
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