Rita Gigante grew up in a world swirling with secrets, lies, and multiple sins.
Her father, notorious Mafia boss Vincent The Chin Gigante, was the leader of the Genovese crime clan and the head of all five New York crime families for decades.
It\'s a real-life father-daughter tale of betrayal and faith, violence and love--and how a young woman escaped from a spiraling darkness to reach the light..
In The Godfather\'s Daughter , Rita details her spiritual journey as she unravels the mysteries of her family and herself, and learns what it means to live in the truth she finds. unless she could find a way to embrace the truth and find redemption.
And then there was the blockbuster secret she herself kept hidden away: As the youngest girl in an old-fashioned, devout Catholic family, how could she confess to the unforgiving Godfather that she was a lesbian? They were all going to hell, she figured...
Living with the family secret--and other shocking betrayals she was to uncover, then instructed to conceal--plunged Rita into emotional and physical turmoil for years.
Don\'t talk about the family.
Keep your mouth shut.
She unknowingly hung out at mob headquarters and witnessed her dad\'s whispered meetings around the dinner table, but only knew what she was told by her mother and siblings about his odd behavior: Dad\'s sick.
But until Rita was sixteen, she was kept in the dark about his underworld activities.
Rita Gigante grew up in a world swirling with secrets, lies, and multiple sins.
Her father, notorious Mafia boss Vincent The Chin Gigante, was the leader of the Genovese crime clan and the head of all five New York crime families for decades
