First published 2009
Victoria Gotti opens the doors to her family's private world for the first time. As daughter of the late John Gotti and sister to John A. "Junior" Gotti, she lived through moments that made the Sopranos seem ordinary by comparison. She watched her father navigate his notorious career while trying to maintain family bonds. She raised three sons as a single mother while cameras rolled for Growing Up Gotti. She built her own career as a columnist and author while carrying the weight of the Gotti name. Now she breaks her silence about the daily reality behind the headlines. Victoria shares personal reflections and previously unseen photographs that reveal how her family actually functioned. She writes with brutal honesty about the tensions, loyalties, and contradictions that defined their household. This memoir strips away the mythology to show the raw truth of growing up Gotti.
Genres: family, crime, autobiography, memoir, biography-memoir, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: New York
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
400 pages · Hardcover · Gallery Books
Content warnings: violence