An account of how the author and his mother survived the erratic, violent outbursts of his father, a powerful man who tempered his rage with affection. To a you... » 

An account of how the author and his mother survived the erratic, violent outbursts of his father, a powerful man who tempered his rage with affection. To a young boy he was a man to both love and fear - until Carcaterra learned something which changed his life for ever: his father was a murderer. «