The Shyster's Daughter
"The Shyster's Daughteris a fascinating, quick and wonderful read.  Similar to Jeanette Walls'sThe Glass Castle,Paula provides her readers with a very well-written tale of her coming of age and adulthood occurring in the shadow of all her father's and family's immoral acts..." -- Literary Hoarders book blog"Priamos's ambitious and successful effort to meld two stories happens in a book calledThe Shyster's Daughter, where she performs the big leap over timidity and skepticism to make her own life story a bigger one indeed...a self-describednoirdetective memoir, something evoking Nathaneal West or Joan Didion." -O.C. Weekly"InThe Shyster's Daughter,Priamos peers into the motivations of her family members with a rare and enticing frankness that distinguishes her work from that of other memoirists." -- ZYZZYVA literary magazine."InThe Shyster's DaughterPriamos has plied the best attributes of his trade to reveal the mysterious and intriguing personality that was her dad." --Women's Memoir"Millions of people have stories to tell about a troubled upbringing, but only one in a million can tell the story as well as Paula Priamos has done. The Shyster's Daughteris a gripping memoir that describes the falling apart of her Inland Empire family and the great efforts it took to survive the fallout." -The San Bernardino Sun