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When Jennifer Mascia is five yrs . old, the FBI comes on her behalf father. At that moment Jenny realizes that her family isn’t exactly normal. What follows are weeks of confusion marked by appointments with her daddy through thick cup, speaking with him on the telephone mounted on the wall membrane. She and her mom crisscross the united states, from California to NY to Miami and again. When her daddy finally profits home, weeks later, his absence is never described—and Jenny is told that the family has a new last name. It’s only much later that Jenny discovers that theirs was a life spent on the lam, wanting to outrun the law.
Thus begins the story of Jennifer Mascia’s bizarre but strangely enchanting child years. An only child, she revels in her parents’ intense love for her—and rides the highs and lows of the equally passionate quarrels. They are simply a tight-knit strap, never allowing many outsiders in. And then there will be the oddities that Jenny notices only as she gets older: the fact that her daddy had two names before he went away—in public areas he was Frank, but at home her mom called him Johnny; the neat, hidden opening in the carpet where her parents keep almost all their cash. The family perceives crazy swings in prosperity—one year they’re shopping for Chanel and Louis Vuitton at posh shopping malls in LA, the next they’re residing in one room and subsisting on food stamps.
What have her parents done? That which was the reason for her daddy’s incarceration so a long time previously? When Jenny, at twenty-two, uncovers her daddy’s criminal history during an Search on the internet, still more questions are raised. By then he's dying of tumors, so she presses her mom for answers, eliciting the first in a series of reluctant admissions about her daddy’s criminal recent. Before her mom dies, four years later, Jenny is manufactured privy to one final, riveting confession, which places her over a search for the truth her mom fought to conceal for so a long time. As Jenny unravels her family’s dark secrets, she must confront the grisly legacy she has inherited and the hard real truth that her parents are not—and also have never been—who they claimed to be. When confronted with unimaginable tragedy, Jenny will finally find an approval and understanding as important and powerful as her parents’ love.
In a memoir both organic and unwavering, Jennifer Mascia tells the amazing tale of the life lived—unwittingly—with scammers. Filled with great love and enormous loss, Never Tell Our Business to Strangers will captivate and enthrall, both with its unrelenting revelations and its own honest, witty heart.
