The Atlanta Journal and Constitution described Bandit by Molly Brodak as: “a book about stories and character, of how events and actions shape who we are, how a father becomes one person, how a daughter grows up to be another.”[2] The New York Times called Bandit “a good book, and with good reason,”[3] while Kirkus called it: “an intelligent, disturbing, and profoundly honest memoir.”
Brodak died on March 8, 2020.[12] According to The New York Times, her husband, Blake Butler, gave the cause of death as suicide by gunshot. She had struggled with depression since childhood.[13]