Chapter 18. Down and Out in Detroit City
Joe Girard never knew why his father hated him. The explosions of rage, the beatings with fists and belts, the cursings—“You’ll never amount to anything! You’re no good! You’ll end up in prison!”—it all seemed to come out of some inexplicable, black well of anger inside his father. All Joe knew from the time he was a toddler was that he was the one who got knocked around and screamed at. Not his older brother. Not his sisters. Just him.
Things were pretty grim anyway. Joe was born right at the start of the Great Depression. His father was a Sicilian immigrant with no trade, no skills, who seldom worked more than a few days at a time. Mainly the family survived on relief checks and handouts. The six of them ...
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