The Apple and the Shady Tree: The Mafia, My Family, and Me – Lisa Novick Goldberg

The true story of how a Jewish New Yorker’s familial relations to the Mafia profoundly shaped her life. They say that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” In Lisa Novick Goldberg’s memoir, she explores the veracity of this proverb by examining her complicated relationship with her father, whose closest friends happen to be bosses of the Genovese crime family.