
Becoming Bonnie
A Novel
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April 15, 2017
The odds against Bonnelyn Parker ever having a normal life mount daily, right from the start. Parker's tightly knit family barely scrapes by after her father's death, and when her mother can't work, Bonnie ups her waitress earnings with a second job, at a speakeasy, where the exciting (and dangerous) customers, jazz music, and dancing top the poverty and boredom of her north Texas neighborhood. Although she marries her childhood sweetheart, Roy Thornton, when Bonnie meets Clyde, the die is cast. More a biographical sketch of the early life of a legendary woman than the rip-roaring-crime-spree story some may expect from the title, Walsh's debut historical novel brings the Prohibition era, the Great Depression, and American gangsters to life through the personality and circumstances of a notorious moll who starts out as a good girl. Although the story focuses on Bonnie, supporting characters provide further perspectives on the magnetic pull of jazz, illegal booze, and a (short) life on the lam. Dennis Lehane's Live by Night (2012) and Renee Rosen's Dollface (2013) paint similar portraits. Look forward to the sequel for later exploits of these notorious bandits.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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