Criminals: My Family's Life on Both Sides of the Law

"An engrossing, highly readable memoir in essays about growing up in New York in the 1970s . . . A tender portrait of family dysfunction." ―Booklist

The Siegels of New York are a singular creation―quirky, idealistic, shaped in large part by Siegel's father, a lovable, impossible man of gargantuan appetites and sloppy ethics, a criminal defense attorney who loved his drug-dealing clients a little too much and went to prison as a result. Siegel's mother decided to pour her energies into making...