My life as a rat
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? The follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes, Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently 'inform' on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement.
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- ISBN: 9780062917683
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Physical Description
sound disc
11 audio discs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher [New York] : Harper Audio, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from disc surface. Compact discs. GMD: sound recording. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Sadie Alexandru. |