Crow’s work delivers a truthful and ultimately empowering missive about the long shadow cast by an abusive parent. Despite instances of stiff dialogue, Crow vividly characterizes a complex, deeply intelligent, and volatile figure whose lies would extend as far as fabricating his Native American heritage. The author David Crow had a maniac father and a depressed and ineffective mother. The book is about a supremely dysfunctional family. As an adult, Crow confronts the impact of Thurston’s violence and insatiable lies on his psychological development, while acknowledging his history of enabling his father’s crimes at last, he confronts the monstrous man who raised him. The Pale-Faced Lie is a True Story which is a very disturbing yet a very captivating memoir of how one man's psychopathic delusions can imprison an entire family. Crow grapples with the realization that Thurston unsuccessfully attempted to murder his mother, nearly making good on his frequent threats to make her disappear (“I was three and a half the first time my dad told me we had to get rid of my mother”). In this painful memoir, Crow recounts his experience growing up with a mentally ill mother and a violent, psychologically abusive father who expected his son to be “a Cherokee Indian of superior intelligence and courage.” With a degree of emotional dissonance, Crow explores the circumstances that led to his father Thurston’s arrest for nearly beating a man to death before the author was born, and how his disarming charisma and fabrications led to a light sentence. A captivating story of how an extremely abusive father terrorized his family for years and how the children learned to overcome and survive their extremely.

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