![]() ![]() ![]() … My mother will say, ‘I never said that! I never did that!’ And I say, ‘I know. “There are definitely autobiographical aspects, but it sure wouldn’t hold up in court,” Livingston says, adding it “confuses the hell out of my family. As the novel begins, Sammie has moved in with a classmate’s family, and the story spends a summer with the teen as she’s pulled between familial bonds and, for the first time, a normal life. Her con artist father dips in and out of her life, while her mother, also a small-time crook, has been battling depression and alcoholism since a grift gone wrong. One Good Hustle tells the story of Sammie Bell, who’s dealing with more problems than your average 16-year-old girl. “The day ended in disaster as far as reunions go,” she says, “but at the end I thought, ‘Well, maybe I can get a story out of this.’” ![]() The last time she saw her father, more than five years ago, he suggested she write a book or movie about his life. “I’ve heard rumours that he’s got Alzheimer’s now, but some of that is hard to believe,” she says, sitting in a Toronto diner earlier this month while in town to promote her latest novel, One Good Hustle. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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