But more importantly, when I sat down to write down my story, I found it very painful to go back. Well, I always wanted to be a writer and didn’t know how. But when did you decide you wanted to write about book about your early life and how did you end up making it happen? It almost hard to start, because I feel like I know so much about you. Admittedly, though, I didn’t ask the one question that was most frequently on my mind: “How did you turn out to be so normal ?” I recently spoke with Crow about the awful hurdles that marked his formative years, the ways in which they impacted his own kids, and ultimately, how he learned to forgive both himself and his parents. The rest of his childhood, as depicted, is almost cartoonishly bleak. The only moments of security and happiness in Crow’s life seem to come from the times he feels “invisible and powerful” immediately after pulling a successful prank on some teacher, classmate or snobby neighbor unlucky enough to enter his orbit. Thurston Crow, for whom the book is named, is painted in vivid color as a career criminal who is constantly boasting about his Cherokee heritage, World War II heroism and stint in San Quentin for attempted murder. In his memoir, The Pale-Faced Lie, Crow takes readers along for the ride through the violence and chaos that comprised his formative years - essentially, beating after beating from schoolyard bullies, his icy stepmother and his primary torturer: his father. What Crow “got through” was a childhood marked by visible neglect and abuse from his parents that few of the adults in his life cared enough about to deal with head-on.
Most people would have gotten through what I got through a lot quicker.”
Yet whenever the subject turns back to him, he offers something along the lines of, “I’m not one of those guys that people will say, ‘Oh, my God, you’re incredible.’ I’m pretty average. In fact, throughout our conversation, he pauses to compliment my interview skills and assures me that I’ve pursued the right career path. As such, he takes any and every opportunity to heap praise on his wife, his children, his children’s “great” spouses, the employees of the lobbying firm he co-founded, his friends and even me. He is, though, more than happy to list out the excellent qualities his loved ones possess.
David Crow doesn’t like to brag - at least not about himself.
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