FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446533106 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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All rights reserved. Edgar Hoover frowned down from the wall. From Publishers Weekly Conlon-McIvor was a Hoover-era FBI agent's daughter, and her diverting memoir tells her story from birth to adolescence while depicting her father as a man so taciturn that she became convinced his every word was code for something else. She conveys her time (the 1960s) and setting (Los Angeles) with precision and detail; her feel for story, structure and understatement rightfully earns the poignancy of many moments. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. At home her mother and siblings livened things up, even though the condition of Joey, the youngest, born with Down's syndrome, made her father even more remote. When tragedy struck, playing at secret
Growing up fifties-style in the seventies FBI father, Catholic school nuns, big family, sixties-seventies, Downs-syndrome childI expected yet another story of growing up stifled in the suburbs, with some illicit sex and scandal.In fact, Conlon-McIver describes a remarkably functional family, bound together by an amazing gener. Heartwarming Memoir of a 60s-era Childhood "FBI Girl" is not about the FBI. Nor is it, really, about Maura Conlon-McIvor's father in his role as an FBI agent. It is, instead, a memoir of the childhold of an Irish-American girl attempting to understand her non-communicative, somewhat dysfunctional father, and loving and caring . E. Griffin said Wonderfula must for anyone that was once a little girl. FBI Girl is a love story-a young girl's love for her family, portrayed primarily by her interactions with her father, mother, and younger brother Joey, who has Down's syndrome. Maura is an Irish Catholic pre-teen, living in Los Angeles because of her father's job with the FBI. Her fat
Young Maura Conlon's dad is a secret agent. And she knows what that means: chasing cars, jumping over buildings, handcuffing bad guys, just like on "The FBI," her favorite TV show. No matter how many times she asks her father about his work, he never says anything. So Maura decides to become an FBI girl-in-training. A heartwarming tale of a father/daughter relationship, this is about family bonds, the trials that test them, and the triumphs that make them stronger.
. Maura Conlon-McIvor lives in Portland, Oregon