PositiveWashington Independent Review of BooksThe Godmother is an original piece of work that takes mob-watchers outside of the usual cliches...It’s often a challenge for American readers to follow a narrative set in a foreign country, but I found myself wanting to hang out with Nadeau’s vicious and deluded sorceresses and listen to them lie to me just a little more about how they’re the victims in all this...Their stories are deeply disturbing, darkly funny in places, and validate the notion that the best thing about the Mafia is its gift for mythmaking.