He continued his criminal behavior behind bars and was eventually placed in solitary confinement - a hard way to do time, even for seasoned convicts. After holding up his thirtieth bank, he was arrested and served seven years in prison. Joe's father survived, but for Joe that bloody yet fulfilling attack was the starting point of a life of crime. Then, at age sixteen, Joe retaliated during a particularly severe beating and stabbed his father in the neck.
In the two years before her death, Joe's extremely religious father became increasingly violent toward his two young sons - a contradiction that haunted Joe for years. Joe Loya's idyllic childhood came to an abrupt end at age 7 when his mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.A new edition of Joe Loya’s memoir about hazard, crime, sin, and secular redemption, featuring an introduction by Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black. Nonetheless, many readers will find Loya's honesty and self-awareness gripping and will root for him to transcend his inner demons.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. His gradual rejection of that code, nurtured and sustained by a pen-pal relationship with poet Richard Rodriguez, is a little less well-developed, and his ending the narrative shortly after his release leaves unanswered some of the thoughtful questions he raises about rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Loya does a masterful job of conveying the survivalist ethos he's forced to adopt while incarcerated. His rapid descent into a life of crime leads to a demeaning and grueling prison stretch. Pushed beyond his limits, Loya finally takes drastic steps to protect himself. While Loya avoids blaming his eventual career as a criminal on his father's brutality, the resulting feelings of helplessness clearly played a major role in transforming a bookish nerd into a violent thug. After his mother's death, both Loya and his younger brother suffered horrible beatings from their father, a Protestant minister. In this well-written, insightful memoir, reformed bank robber Loya provides a searing account of the physical and emotional scars he received growing up in East Los Angeles.
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