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Fiona's True Crime Book Reviews: A by author
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Mark Arax
In My Father's Name: A Family, a Town, a Murder
When Mark Arax was fifteen, his father, a
Fresno, California, bar owner, was killed by two gunmen in
what appeared to be "a hit." Arax became a journalist in order
to acquire the skills he needed, and then twenty years
later returned to Fresno to ferret out the truth about
his father's murder. His book is a detailed and absorbing
account of multiple generations of his Armenian family,
and of his quest to come to terms not only with his
father's death and life, but with his own obsession with
the case. As the Los Angeles Times writes,
"Almost every American town harbors some brutal secret,
but few produce writers like Mark Arax with both the
the courage and artistic talent needed to coax the story
out and shape it into fine literature. Of course, Arax had
an extra incentive: the footsteps he followed ran straight
through his own family, straight through his own heart."
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