On March 25, 1969 Linda Hale Bucklin learned her vivacious mother was dead, her right temple blown out by a bullet from her father\'s pistol.
A fourth-generation San Franciscan, she now lives with her husband in Mill Valley, CA..
REVIEWS: ..".a jolting memoir." The New York Post ..".a book you won\'t be able to put down." David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary MEET LINDA Hale BUCKLIN: Linda feels blessed to be surrounded by her three grown sons, two daughters-in-law and two grandchildren.
But amid the ashes, Linda finds a new strength: the strength to forgive the one who started it all.
Once a child of privilege, Linda recounts, in vivid detail, her extraordinary life-summers on the family\'s 10, 000 acre ranch in Northern California, hunting trips to Africa and Alaska, high society vignettes of a fourth-generation San Francisco family, and her father\'s final decision: to leave the entire family fortune to Minnelli.
When her father marries his mistress, Denise Minnelli, stepmother to Liza Minnelli, the family unravels.
Was it suicide or homicide? Standing up to her father, heir to the Broadway/Hale Department Store fortune, Linda is disinherited, then ostracized from the family she loves.
On March 25, 1969 Linda Hale Bucklin learned her vivacious mother was dead, her right temple blown out by a bullet from her father\'s pistol
