“Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir” by Molly Brodak

A review and analysis

The way I came to read “Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir” by Molly Brodak is that I read her obituary in The New York Times. Suicide at age 39 on March 8, 2020, just a few weeks short of her 40th birthday. “Bandit” is her straight-up account of her gambling-addicted, bank-robbing psycho father and her narcissistic bi-polar pyscho mother. Her mother essentially wished her into oblivion by telling her to her face that she should have left her father after her older sister was born. My mother essentially told me the same thing by saying…