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The Company She Keeps: The Dangerous Life of a Model Turned Mafia Wife
A female Goodfellas—the true story of A supermodel turned getaway driver for the mob.
All-American beauty Georgia Durante was one of the most photographed models in the country when she married mobster Joe Lamendola. It plunged her into a world she never dreamed of—and one she feared she’d never survive—as a getaway driver for the Mafia and an eyewitness to unspeakable violence, brutality, and murder, as she came to understand the terrifying risk of being married to the Mob.
All-American beauty Georgia Durante was one of the most photographed models in the country when she married mobster Joe Lamendola. It plunged her into a world she never dreamed of—and one she feared she’d never survive—as a getaway driver for the Mafia and an eyewitness to unspeakable violence, brutality, and murder, as she came to understand the terrifying risk of being married to the Mob.
496 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
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December 24, 2010
The back of the book is false advertising. It leads one to believe the story is about a get-away driver for the Mob but in actuality it's about an egomaniacal woman who makes countless terrible decisions and doesn't learn from any of them; it's a long, drawn out chronical of her past relationships with men. The get-away driver parts are next to nil. If you want to indulge in a conversation with a woman who relied heavily on her parents to raise her daughter while she grew up in a bar and several marriages, this is for you. There are several other books on the Mafia that are better than this.
October 20, 2023
It's one of my first favorite books of all time, sparking my love of biographies. What a fascinating woman with an unbelievable life! The fact that she is from the town we are raising our family in blows my mind. I love recognizing the landmarks she mentions in her early life. Really well written & captivating.
July 13, 2010
(Review originally printed at Bookpleasures.com)
For Georgia Durante, a Rochester-based model in the 60’s, the world was “mysterious, exciting, and seductive.” She had an “endless appetite for excitement” and she attracted dangerous men. This led to her having several ties to the Mob and more than one bad relationship, which you can read about in her confessional memoir, The Company She Keeps.
She started running errands for the Mob as a young mother, leaving her baby daughter with her mother. “I was taken in by the intrigue…without much thought of consequence.” After one close call fleeing from a robbery (Georgia at the wheel) she had second thoughts while she accepted her cut of the money, but says she was “hooked on the adrenaline rush.” She seems so tough and worldly it is easy to forget that she was just a girl. Some readers might harshly judge her lifestyle; some might say she had it coming when her second husband—who also had ties to the Mob—quickly becomes an abusive, controlling force in her life, cutting her off from friends and family; but that attitude of “those women deserve it” is exactly the attitude that Georgia decries while opining on society’s oppressive view of women; which she had to deal with at any early age when she was violently raped by her sister’s husband.
This was just the beginning of the reoccurring violence that surrounded her young adult life. Besides witnessing violence in the Mafia and her tumultuous second marriage, her first husband’s brother kills his entire family, and later on an obsessive stalker holds a gun to her head. How does she deal with the violent tendencies of men around her? She says a dark shadow emerged through her pain. As an interesting device, she calls this hard-hearted, desensitized side “Georgia Black” a counter-point and protector to her vulnerable, soft-hearted side, “Georgia White.” Through-out the book, “Black” and “White” take turns emerging in different situations.
This memoir doesn’t fall easily into any category. Coming-of-age at the beginning, turning into survivor memoir mixed with true crime. Georgia shares some insights into the psyche of a domestic abuse victim; when writing about overcoming victim mentality and finding her inner-strength she is at her most introspective. Interestingly, after getting out of her second marriage, she calls her estranged husband (the abuser) to help her out of yet another violent relationship. He sends a guy to “take care of it.” Is this bizarrely sweet? Georgia makes it seem like it’s just another day in her crazy life.
Generally speaking, the second half is depressing as we see Georgia’s personal life fall into shambles but it’s during this time that she pursues a new career in L.A. as a stunt driver and gains confidence in herself.
I called this a “confessional” but sometimes it seems as if Georgia is only partially revealing the truth. Understandably, not too much is revealed about the Mafia or the errands she runs. At some points, she interrupts her personal commentary to give an editorial about the latest Mafia news of that time, but we don’t understand how much she has to do with these situations, and when she says her life revolved around her six-year-old and her new career, the FBI present themselves (for the second time) and it’s revealed that she’s been hanging out with John Gotti and Salvatore Reale. Drug usage is down-played and hinted at defensively; it is things like this, like the casual unremorseful mention of throwing an ashtray at her sister which caused fourteen stitches, which causes the reader to go “whoa—what is really going on here?” In the last chapter, she talks of soul-searching, needing to do inner-work to let light back into her spirit and become whole, but these just seem like superficial phrases.
There is one steady presence that gives the book a romantic quality: that of Frankie, a mobster she met in NYC the summer after high school graduation. He loved her but didn’t want her involved in his kind of life; little did he know she was destined for it anyway when he refused to marry her. They kept up a relationship all through Georgia’s life so far.
This book was originally published in 1998. As a re-release, this mass-market paperback edition includes an epilogue which shows real redemption and genuine soul-searching. Georgia is now involved in leading an abused-women organization and using her adventurous spirit to help people in crisis. I am looking forward to her next memoir.
For Georgia Durante, a Rochester-based model in the 60’s, the world was “mysterious, exciting, and seductive.” She had an “endless appetite for excitement” and she attracted dangerous men. This led to her having several ties to the Mob and more than one bad relationship, which you can read about in her confessional memoir, The Company She Keeps.
She started running errands for the Mob as a young mother, leaving her baby daughter with her mother. “I was taken in by the intrigue…without much thought of consequence.” After one close call fleeing from a robbery (Georgia at the wheel) she had second thoughts while she accepted her cut of the money, but says she was “hooked on the adrenaline rush.” She seems so tough and worldly it is easy to forget that she was just a girl. Some readers might harshly judge her lifestyle; some might say she had it coming when her second husband—who also had ties to the Mob—quickly becomes an abusive, controlling force in her life, cutting her off from friends and family; but that attitude of “those women deserve it” is exactly the attitude that Georgia decries while opining on society’s oppressive view of women; which she had to deal with at any early age when she was violently raped by her sister’s husband.
This was just the beginning of the reoccurring violence that surrounded her young adult life. Besides witnessing violence in the Mafia and her tumultuous second marriage, her first husband’s brother kills his entire family, and later on an obsessive stalker holds a gun to her head. How does she deal with the violent tendencies of men around her? She says a dark shadow emerged through her pain. As an interesting device, she calls this hard-hearted, desensitized side “Georgia Black” a counter-point and protector to her vulnerable, soft-hearted side, “Georgia White.” Through-out the book, “Black” and “White” take turns emerging in different situations.
This memoir doesn’t fall easily into any category. Coming-of-age at the beginning, turning into survivor memoir mixed with true crime. Georgia shares some insights into the psyche of a domestic abuse victim; when writing about overcoming victim mentality and finding her inner-strength she is at her most introspective. Interestingly, after getting out of her second marriage, she calls her estranged husband (the abuser) to help her out of yet another violent relationship. He sends a guy to “take care of it.” Is this bizarrely sweet? Georgia makes it seem like it’s just another day in her crazy life.
Generally speaking, the second half is depressing as we see Georgia’s personal life fall into shambles but it’s during this time that she pursues a new career in L.A. as a stunt driver and gains confidence in herself.
I called this a “confessional” but sometimes it seems as if Georgia is only partially revealing the truth. Understandably, not too much is revealed about the Mafia or the errands she runs. At some points, she interrupts her personal commentary to give an editorial about the latest Mafia news of that time, but we don’t understand how much she has to do with these situations, and when she says her life revolved around her six-year-old and her new career, the FBI present themselves (for the second time) and it’s revealed that she’s been hanging out with John Gotti and Salvatore Reale. Drug usage is down-played and hinted at defensively; it is things like this, like the casual unremorseful mention of throwing an ashtray at her sister which caused fourteen stitches, which causes the reader to go “whoa—what is really going on here?” In the last chapter, she talks of soul-searching, needing to do inner-work to let light back into her spirit and become whole, but these just seem like superficial phrases.
There is one steady presence that gives the book a romantic quality: that of Frankie, a mobster she met in NYC the summer after high school graduation. He loved her but didn’t want her involved in his kind of life; little did he know she was destined for it anyway when he refused to marry her. They kept up a relationship all through Georgia’s life so far.
This book was originally published in 1998. As a re-release, this mass-market paperback edition includes an epilogue which shows real redemption and genuine soul-searching. Georgia is now involved in leading an abused-women organization and using her adventurous spirit to help people in crisis. I am looking forward to her next memoir.
March 8, 2010
American Authors Association Review -
She kept dangerous company - and what a great personal story it is!
Model, stunt driver, get-away driver for the mafia and now author, Georgia Durante, gives readers an rare insiders look at a world we never get to see. In her brilliantly written personal memoir, "The Company She Keeps," she exposes the underbelly of the mob. As a former mafia wife and friend to many of the East coast's biggest mobsters, she was in a privileged position to see and hear things that if she talked about could get her killed.
Georgia tells of a life that few can actually relate to in any fashion at all. First off, she is a stunningly beautiful young woman who begins modeling in her hometown. Then, she gets raped, beat up, has her life threatened, used as a get-away driver for a robbery, gets married and divorced several times, abused by boyfriends and husbands, sees friends and people she knows get beaten up and killed, escapes an abusive relationship, is a victim of a deadly stalker, arrested in Vegas, interviewed by the FBI, loses custody of her children at some point in time and creates her own stunt driving business. That only opens up a brief look at the complex world of emotional and spiritual experiences she has endured and survived through.
The book truly reads like a great action novel (like The Godfather) but it has so much more feeling and energy. We finally get to see and feel what this lifestyle is like from the female point of view. You come away realizing how strong this woman was and continues to be. She could have given up and had just gone along with the flow but she chose to take charge of her life and thus took some huge risks in order to become independent and healthy.
For readers who love the Mafia type genre this is a wonderful book. However, if you dig a little deeper into her story you will see an almost stealth like spiritual presence in her story as she evolves and grows emotionally and spiritually. Towards the end of the book, readers who are more in-tune with the universe, will see her change from someone out to have a good time and just survive to someone who is searching for the real meaning in her life. Georgia has taken up the cause of battered and abused women and uses her money, fame and connections for the betterment of others. She has truly come full circle in her life. She is still creating her life-story – but one cannot help but come away from reading this book believing very strongly, that she will continue her spiritual quest for inner peace for herself and others. It is hard not to truly like Georgia, there is just something special that emanates from her very soul – and it is not just skin deep!
I will admit that at times during the reading of this book that I was saddened and had tears for her situation. I even wanted to go strike out against those forces in her life that were so evil and negative. I hurt for her when I read about the abuse she went through. It was an eye-opener for me. I came away with a clearer understanding of the issue of abuse that women and children put up with. It was not comfortable to read but it is message that needs to be shared.
This book has been nominated for one of The American Authors Association's annual book awards. It has also earned their top book rating of FIVE STARS. More importantly, it has earned my highest personal recommendation. The book is a page turner and will emotionally move you long after you finish reading it.
Submitted by AAA Founder - W. H. McDonald, Jr.
She kept dangerous company - and what a great personal story it is!
Model, stunt driver, get-away driver for the mafia and now author, Georgia Durante, gives readers an rare insiders look at a world we never get to see. In her brilliantly written personal memoir, "The Company She Keeps," she exposes the underbelly of the mob. As a former mafia wife and friend to many of the East coast's biggest mobsters, she was in a privileged position to see and hear things that if she talked about could get her killed.
Georgia tells of a life that few can actually relate to in any fashion at all. First off, she is a stunningly beautiful young woman who begins modeling in her hometown. Then, she gets raped, beat up, has her life threatened, used as a get-away driver for a robbery, gets married and divorced several times, abused by boyfriends and husbands, sees friends and people she knows get beaten up and killed, escapes an abusive relationship, is a victim of a deadly stalker, arrested in Vegas, interviewed by the FBI, loses custody of her children at some point in time and creates her own stunt driving business. That only opens up a brief look at the complex world of emotional and spiritual experiences she has endured and survived through.
The book truly reads like a great action novel (like The Godfather) but it has so much more feeling and energy. We finally get to see and feel what this lifestyle is like from the female point of view. You come away realizing how strong this woman was and continues to be. She could have given up and had just gone along with the flow but she chose to take charge of her life and thus took some huge risks in order to become independent and healthy.
For readers who love the Mafia type genre this is a wonderful book. However, if you dig a little deeper into her story you will see an almost stealth like spiritual presence in her story as she evolves and grows emotionally and spiritually. Towards the end of the book, readers who are more in-tune with the universe, will see her change from someone out to have a good time and just survive to someone who is searching for the real meaning in her life. Georgia has taken up the cause of battered and abused women and uses her money, fame and connections for the betterment of others. She has truly come full circle in her life. She is still creating her life-story – but one cannot help but come away from reading this book believing very strongly, that she will continue her spiritual quest for inner peace for herself and others. It is hard not to truly like Georgia, there is just something special that emanates from her very soul – and it is not just skin deep!
I will admit that at times during the reading of this book that I was saddened and had tears for her situation. I even wanted to go strike out against those forces in her life that were so evil and negative. I hurt for her when I read about the abuse she went through. It was an eye-opener for me. I came away with a clearer understanding of the issue of abuse that women and children put up with. It was not comfortable to read but it is message that needs to be shared.
This book has been nominated for one of The American Authors Association's annual book awards. It has also earned their top book rating of FIVE STARS. More importantly, it has earned my highest personal recommendation. The book is a page turner and will emotionally move you long after you finish reading it.
Submitted by AAA Founder - W. H. McDonald, Jr.
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February 1, 2020
This author is so full of herself but she spends her life being a bum-magnet and making one poor choice after another. She wins the prize for worst mother. She claims to love her children but she repeatedly puts men and her career ahead of them. She name drops and brags about her beauty and achievements but she comes across as so trashy. She writes about having an amazing family and childhood all the while saying she made friends with gangsters in bars at the age of 13. The writing is so odd as well. She changes settings from one paragraph to the next. I was compelled to finish the book but I found so much of it unbelievable.
March 13, 2009
I am obsessed with the mafia. This was an interesting perspective of someone not quite "made" but a part of the inner circle of the Rochester mafia. If you can get past the fact that the author is a unrelenting egomaniac, you can be entertained. It was hard for me to respect a woman who repeatedly made such poor mistakes. I hoped to read her epiphany in actual events instead of having her say, "I had my a-ha moment.". Still it was an entertaining read.
November 23, 2015
Couldn't get into this one. It got annoying to keep reading about the author's looks.
April 9, 2022
Wow! I lived in Fairport, the community next door to East Rochester, and a year younger than Ms. Durante. We knew many of the same people and I remember all the names and places she mentions. Being a photographer and working in Rochester during the time I saw her at several events, including an Italian-American day at Finger Lakes racetrack. Not only does she capture the essence of growing up in the area and the times, but the adversity she faced, throughout her life and the ways she overcame the hardships is a testament to her strength and resiliency.
May 21, 2022
Without question, the WORST book I have read this year. Delusional, self-absorbed nut job of a woman, who can’t make a single good decision in her life. Let’s start with this quote, as she attempts to stage the murder of her own young children(!) in order to give her then-husband a heart attack:
“I found my hysterical voice and screamed into the phone. “I just killed the kids! Now neither one of us can have them!” I hung up and immediately poured ketchup all over the foyer floor and walls, smearing it to look like blood….
His eyes bulged as he saw what he thought was blood. He ran into the kids’ rooms and saw that they were fine. His entire body shook as he confronted me in the living room—but he didn’t die. Shit! It didn’t work.”
If you want to read about the life of a sick woman who is obsessed with clothes and appearance, makes no time for her children, and spends much of the book bragging on her far-flung travels and modeling jobs and rubbing shoulders with celebrities and befriending murderous mob idols while trashing law enforcement - and is fully committed to repeating an endless cycle of bad-choices-followed-by-starting-a-new-chapter-in-my-dismal-life (of choosing the same thing, over and over), this is the book. For me, personally, it was nauseating and disgusting. Even worse, she seems to have passed down the dysfunctional behaviors to her children, takes no responsibility and shows no remorse.
Don’t waste your time on this one. Truly.
“I found my hysterical voice and screamed into the phone. “I just killed the kids! Now neither one of us can have them!” I hung up and immediately poured ketchup all over the foyer floor and walls, smearing it to look like blood….
His eyes bulged as he saw what he thought was blood. He ran into the kids’ rooms and saw that they were fine. His entire body shook as he confronted me in the living room—but he didn’t die. Shit! It didn’t work.”
If you want to read about the life of a sick woman who is obsessed with clothes and appearance, makes no time for her children, and spends much of the book bragging on her far-flung travels and modeling jobs and rubbing shoulders with celebrities and befriending murderous mob idols while trashing law enforcement - and is fully committed to repeating an endless cycle of bad-choices-followed-by-starting-a-new-chapter-in-my-dismal-life (of choosing the same thing, over and over), this is the book. For me, personally, it was nauseating and disgusting. Even worse, she seems to have passed down the dysfunctional behaviors to her children, takes no responsibility and shows no remorse.
Don’t waste your time on this one. Truly.
November 27, 2016
Georgia's life and story is quite fascinating and intriguing and deserves a book. That being said she should have hired a ghost writer at the very least. The writing was awful, sometimes hard to follow and full of examples of the author straight up telling you something instead of showing it to you.
Also, for all her flaws and horrible decisions she didn't seem to have learned any lessons or even be able to admit her flaws. She is a terribly self centered, can do no wrong in her own eyes woman and therefore nothing positive comes out of the story.
If you are interested in the story this is a cheap dime novel you could should buy at the airport and read on the beach, if that.
Also, for all her flaws and horrible decisions she didn't seem to have learned any lessons or even be able to admit her flaws. She is a terribly self centered, can do no wrong in her own eyes woman and therefore nothing positive comes out of the story.
If you are interested in the story this is a cheap dime novel you could should buy at the airport and read on the beach, if that.
April 16, 2009
A gritty, hard core insiders look at the world of organized crime, mainly based in Rochester, through the story of this woman's extremely difficult life. Her life is incredible: modeling, stunt driving, every kind of abuse imaginable, several marriages and divorces, plane crashes, murder, crime, corruption, you name it. It was very interesting to read in more detail about the Italian mafia when I've only heard brief stories through family members over the years. It's a world that most of suburbia Rochester is oblivious to.
July 31, 2015
Georgia Durante has lived a life few have.She has had her ups and downs like anyone else has.But with her her highs and lows have been so much more.The book kept me up most nights.With this true life story being fast paced and an inspiration.And shows how people can have two diffrent sides to them as diffrent as night and day.
February 13, 2008
Georgia wrote a first person account of a life that would make a good movie or series. She was a beautiful and wild teenager who got mixed up with gangsters and drove getaway cars while she was modeling for Eastman Kodak. I think most women will find her story compelling and a lot of men will as well. I know I did. She did a good job of telling her story and she's got quite a story to tell.
November 18, 2008
This is a great book. The mob world is something that I knew nothing about, so that was interesting. The social worker in me cried for Georgia and I'm thankful for her speaking out for abused women. Knowing her personally in her life after what the book covers makes it a special book for me. Great lady, great book!
January 17, 2009
This is a wonderful survivor story about a women who married into the mob and the life she lead.From Beautiful model to driving for gangsters it is a page turner that you just cannot put down. Great for people who like memiors,true crime or just a really good book.It is one that stays with you.
December 4, 2012
Excellent book. This woman fell into a life that books are to be wrote about. Her involvement in the mob and the way they protected her. Her hardships in relationships were heartbreaking. I admire her for how she overcame adversity and made something of herself....on her terms.
June 18, 2008
I heard Georgia Durante on the breakfast buzz and thought it would be a cool book to read since it's so close to home. I could not stop reading this book, it was amazing!
January 21, 2013
Couldn't get enough of this book...what a life!
May 30, 2018
My heart. This book literally took over my heart and my life when I was reading it.
It was the first autobiography I’ve ever read but undoubtedly one of the best books that I’ve ever held.
The author, supermodel Georgia Durante, shares her life story with the readers starting from the early years of her childhood. The book is written so well that you really feel like you’re getting to know the author on a personal level, as if she’s actually telling you her life story in person.
This comes with an emotional rollercoaster. When it came to an end I didn’t even know what I was feeling! After reading about everything she’s been through, how could I not feel happy and sympathetic towards her though?
Georgia Durante is honestly an inspiration and after reading the book you realise the important values of life and how they can truly get you through even the toughest of times.
It was the first autobiography I’ve ever read but undoubtedly one of the best books that I’ve ever held.
The author, supermodel Georgia Durante, shares her life story with the readers starting from the early years of her childhood. The book is written so well that you really feel like you’re getting to know the author on a personal level, as if she’s actually telling you her life story in person.
This comes with an emotional rollercoaster. When it came to an end I didn’t even know what I was feeling! After reading about everything she’s been through, how could I not feel happy and sympathetic towards her though?
Georgia Durante is honestly an inspiration and after reading the book you realise the important values of life and how they can truly get you through even the toughest of times.
August 4, 2025
Morbidly fascinating story, especially since so much of it is set in my hometown (well, since the age of 10). Poorly written and edited (she tries hard to impress but instead much of her syntax is strained and excessive). She seems simultaneously self-aware and blissfully ignorant of how she comes across (a bit full of herself, and lacking in much introspection, or awareness of how she neglected her kids and put them in terrible situations/circumstances; or how/why she fell for one really inappropriate and damaging man after another). Photo section in the middle is interesting (she was a Kodak model, and was very cute in her day), but completely disorganized and jumbled. Where were her editors?!?!
Would I recommend? Probably not, unless you’re from this same town and find the local history compelling.
Would I recommend? Probably not, unless you’re from this same town and find the local history compelling.
May 18, 2017
I really liked this story. It may have had more appeal to me because the names were familiar and I was in this same parking lot the night before Sammy G was blown up. The places were also known to me. It was a big story in Rochester. Georgia's story was interesting to view what happened from a different perspective. Mafia was. very visible back in the 70's. Her story was sad to me that she took so long to get her life somewhat on track. I always wondered who would want to be a stunt person in the movies or on commercials. Now I have seen what one person's life was like that. brought her to that career.
January 11, 2018
I picked up this book in Cortez, Colorado thinking it'd be an action packed biography about a full time getaway driver for the Mafia. This book definately was action packed, but it lacked in the getaway driver part. Nonetheless, I found myself entranced by Durante's descriptions, and the endless twsits and turns. You start with a model, and a crashed lamborgnini, and you end up with a woman whose independece is the only thing keeping her safe from imindent death. It's gritty, shocking, and ne er ending. I do recomend you buy the newest edition, the photos give another layer to it, or maybe I just enjoy looking at pictures. Who knows.
I'd read it again
I'd read it again
October 24, 2023
Don't even have to read the whole book, the excerpts I have read are enough. I'm pretty sure the parts about her getaway driving are as bogus as her portrayl of mob life in Rochester. There's a big difference between being someone of importance and hanging out at bars they frequent. My father was what my mother referred to as a member in good standing and I was at lots of parties and weddings from age 13 on. I am the same age as Georgia and I never met her or even heard of her until she wrote the book. When I asked an alleged boss why, I was told "because she was nobody". She gets one star for actually being a Kodak model.
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May 12, 2023
I really enjoyed this memoir about a woman who gets involved with the Mob in Rochester, NY from an early age, and as the story usually goes, can never get out. She loves fiercely, carriers morals on her shoulders, but falls in with the wrong crowd one too many times. Georgia Durante was a cousin of my grandfathers and it was interested to read about a lot of the names I grew to know hearing my Grandpa’s stories of his younger years and having all the familiarity throughout with a plot of Rochester, NY. Easily giving this one 4 stars.
August 4, 2017
A Mafia story told from a woman’s point of view. Georgia endured a lot of problems in her marriages especially domestic violence but she had her own life too. Not only did she get involved with the group, but she was a model and then stunt / racecar driver so she was pretty interesting as a person herself.
May 6, 2020
This was one of the first memoirs I've read and I was enthralled from the very first chapter. Georgia's life is straight out a movie, this woman is so strong and resilient and her story is sometimes sad but always hopeful as well. If you are interested in bad ass women or the mob I'd recommend this book!
June 15, 2022
this woman was so self centered and annoying (kind of typical for the main subjects of mafia books it seems). i did feel bad at her at parts, especially with her husband joe. the book started off strong, had a weak middle, then got interesting again when she started being stalked and the fbi (or was it cia?) got involved. not a must read by any means but interesting enough.
January 17, 2023
This is an very heavy book to read. The description of events that transpired are at times distressing.
The people and names , places and events are so familiar if one has lived during this era.
I have to say, this account of this amazingly resilient woman’s life both enlightened me and disturbed me.
The people and names , places and events are so familiar if one has lived during this era.
I have to say, this account of this amazingly resilient woman’s life both enlightened me and disturbed me.
January 2, 2018
Interesting memoir about a woman who was friends with some members of the mob in the 1970s. It follows her life into the 80s and 90s through several marriages and how she became a professional stunt driver.
March 29, 2024
If this book had been less repetitive, it would’ve made it much more interesting. In my opinion, Georgia’s failed relationships as well as the abuse she endured could have been emphasized in a more succinct manner.
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