Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman

by Andrea Giovino

Book Overview

Divorced from the Mob breaks the mob code of silence and describes the life of Andrea Giovino, a woman born and bred into the Mafia, and her inspirational escape. Sexy and street-smart, Giovino married a mob drug runner, earned a seat at '80s nightclub tables next to John Gotti, and took an emotional and bloody ride through organized crime. Hers was also the task of keeping her children safe--keeping the guns out of reach, washing bloodstains out...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786713550
• ISBN13: 9780786713554
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and thought provoking book

This book definitely wasn't what I expected, and I had no idea that I would stay up all night reading it, because I didn't want to put it down. Andrea Giovani's true-life story is less about the mob and more about a woman and her life, the bad choices she made, really based on what she knew, and the way she'd been raised by a mother who emphasized questionable values in her children. I feel like I learned something about my own life from reading Giovani's life story. At some points in the book, I was saying the lines before I read them. This is a great book for women to read, and I highly recommend it. I identified with Andrea Giovani in ways that I'd never expected I would.

A FUN Summer read!

I couldn't put this book down. I am a big fan of mob stories and this was a good one...I am just glad she got her life together and got her kids out of that mess. The author is a strong woman with incredible survivor skills. I wish her all the best!

Divorced from the Mob

This was a great book from a Women's perspective on the mob. An amazing life that Andrea has managed to get away from. Despite growing up and not knowing the difference between life in the Mob and the "normal life", it seems that her inside intelligence has won, along with a wonderful faith in the family value.Please read the book. It's exciting and insightefull! I'm waiting for the next book she writes.

Couldn't put it down

Great book. Well-written. It reads as if Andrea was right there in the room with me telling me these chilling stories. Unlike the Sopranos, this is real and these people aren't at all conflicted about what they do. The book does a great job of showing how someone growing up on the fringes of the mob can get so caught up in it that they become blind to how illegal their actions are. Chilling that people like this could be living quietly next door selling drugs and killing people as if it's any other business, and then you're in the middle of it as their façade of respectability comes crashing down around them. Lots of action.

Held Hostage By This Book!

Normally an in-between-the-other-parts-of-my-busy-life reader, I just could not put this book down.! Giovino's life is fascinating - what a gutsy broad, tender mother, caring human being despite the hard and , one would think, hardening life she has led. Brozek's writing truly captures her voice.,making the whole experience highly vivid, very exciting and truly touching. Hoping for a sequel!A MUST READ! A GREAT GIFT!