The Pale

Spur Award Winner for Finest Western First Nonfiction Guide • Spur Award Finalist for Finest Western Up to date Nonfiction • IPPY Silver Award for Finest Memoir • Subsequent Era Indie Award for Finest Memoir (Overcoming Adversity) • Worldwide Guide Award for Finest True Crime • Readers’ Favourite Gold Medal, Nonfiction Drama

A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes on this unforgettable memoir about household and survival.

Rising up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who beloved to inform his kids about his World Struggle II feats. However as time handed, David found the opposite facet of Thurston Crow, the ex-con together with his personal code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies—even homicide. Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his prison bidding. David’s mother, too mentally unwell to look after her kids, couldn’t defend him.

By means of sheer willpower, David managed to get into school and obtain skilled success. When he lastly discovered the braveness to refuse his father’s prison calls for, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that might power him right into a lethal showdown with Thurston Crow. David would have solely twenty-four hours to outsmart his father—the good, psychotic man who bragged that the three years he spent within the infamous San Quentin State Jail had been the best time of his life.

Uncooked and palpable, The Pale-Confronted Lie is an inspirational story in regards to the energy of forgiveness and the power of the human spirit.

“Cinematically gripping.”—Kirkus Evaluations

“Empowering missive in regards to the lengthy shadow solid by an abusive mother or father.”—Publishers Weekly

“For followers of Tara Westover’s Educated, The Pale-Confronted Lie . . . is a disturbing but charming memoir about how one man’s psychotic delusions can imprison a complete household.”—New York Journal of Books