The inspiration for the TV series I Am the Night.The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annal...
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The inspiration for the TV series I Am the Night.The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annals of true crime. But behind the shocking case of a young actress's gruesome slaying lies the story of another woman.Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman, who raised the white child as her own.Together, as a close-knit mother and daughter, they weathered years of poverty and bigotry, alcoholism and sexual abuse, pregnancy and even death???????????????"???????????????????????????????"until the time came for Fauna to seek out her real mother, and uncover her lost past.But as Fauna will learn, some truths don't want to be told.Now includes an 8-page photo insert from Fauna's personal collection.
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