Department of Agriculture administration. Crow struggled at school-he was diagnosed with dyslexia-but still managed to graduate from college and eventually win a position with the U.S. The author idolized his father, nevertheless, and pined to become “smart and strong and brave” just like Thurston, sometimes perversely winning his praise for ungovernable mischievousness. Thelma Lou was mentally disturbed, and her combination of incompetence and motherly negligence consistently endangered her children. Thurston finally forced Crow to orchestrate their abandonment of her. When Crow was not yet 4 years old, Thurston confided in him that he would soon get rid of Thelma Lou, the author’s mother. He was also an unrepentant thief who recruited the author to be his accomplice in crime. Thurston spent time in prison for nearly beating a man to death and often bragged about other murders he committed or planned to perpetrate. Raw and palpable, The Pale-Faced Lie is an inspirational story about the power of forgiveness and the strength of the human spirit.A writer recollects an astonishingly dysfunctional childhood under the violent, criminal tyranny of his father.Īccording to debut author Crow, his father, Thurston, was as intelligent as he was dangerous-apparently the bearer of an uncommonly high IQ, he was also alarmingly volatile. David would have only twenty-four hours to outsmart his father-the brilliant, psychotic man who bragged that the three years he spent in the notorious San Quentin State Prison had been the easiest time of his life. When he finally found the courage to refuse his father's criminal demands, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a deadly showdown with Thurston Crow. Through sheer determination, and with the help of a few angels along the way, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success.
David's mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn't protect him.
Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his criminal bidding. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies-even murder. Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats.
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