{"product_id":"five-finger-discount-book-helene-stapinski-9780375758706","title":"Five-Finger Discount","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City will steal your heart (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With deadpan humor and obvious affection, \u003ci\u003eFive-Finger Discount\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls a page-turner, Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City--a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight--with the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades. Navigating a childhood of toxic waste and tough love, Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale at once heartbreaking and hysterically funny. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFive-Finger Discount\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By turns hilarious and alarming,  Helene Stapinski's] book reads on the surface like something by Damon Runyon and Elmore Leonard, with a dark undertow of real-life pain and disillusion.\u003cb\u003e--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's a brilliant book, a darling book. It is the blessedly modest chronicle of a magical consciousness that seems to have been born pulling diamonds out of the muck, hearing angels' voices in the fiercest thunder. . . . I adored every word of this wondrous book. Get it. Read it.\u003cb\u003e--Michael Pakenham, \u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the tradition of . . . Rita Mae Brown and Amy Tan, Ms. Stapinski is an exciting writer, unabashedly candid, and at the same time unashamedly self-contained. \u003ci\u003eFive-Finger Discount\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read.\u003cb\u003e--Victoria Gotti, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What  Frank] McCourt did for Limerick, Ireland, Helene Stapinski does for Jersey City.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Star-Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hugely entertaining.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49526401597713,"sku":"CIN0375758704G","price":3.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49611904123153,"sku":"GOR002750503","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50254541652241,"sku":"GOR009525569","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352442212625,"sku":"CIN0375758704A","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001939788049,"sku":"NIN9780375758706","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52657874010385,"sku":"CIN0375758704VG","price":3.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375758704.jpg?v=1751444148","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/five-finger-discount-book-helene-stapinski-9780375758706","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}