Alligator Candy: A Memoir

by David Kushner

Book Overview

From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love--and the basis for the podcast Alligator Candy. David Kushner grew up in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451682530
• ISBN13: 9781451682533
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great and sorrowful memoir.

I was sucked into this memoir by happenstance. I recently moved to the Tampa Bay area and upon reading that this tragedy took place here, I felt I owed it to my new city to read it. David Kushner does a beautiful job writing about his older brother's death in such a way that you can forget that he was only 4 at the time. It's the kind of tragedy that becomes an urban legend in its own right, but we never get to see the lasting impression such a tragedy can leave on an entire family. The reader will be left angry, sorrowful, and distraught at the events that took place, but Kushner leaves the reader with a beautiful imprint of his brother's spirit and his family's love that enabled them to endure a lifetime of carrying Jonathan with them. So glad I picked this up. I was there with him every step of the way and will think of the Kushners for the rest of my life.