by Nicca Ray

In Love & Cigarettes: A Hollywood Mother Daughter Story, Nicca Ray watches her mother, a glamorous Hollywood dancer and starlet, who Nicca refers to as the Fabulous Betty, navigating a world fraught with wolves, gangsters, and self-seekers, while her father, acclaimed movie director Nicholas Ray, willingly sacrifices family and friends for fame and drugs. Nicca watches as family becomes collateral damage in his wake. Set against the backdrop of the early 1980s Los Angeles punk scene, Nicca seeks to heal the wounds alcoholism inflicted on her family and, through getting sober, breaks the chain of addiction. Healing herself, she then picks up the pieces of an incomplete
relationship with her mother. Nicca gives us the honest and real details of her quest to reconcile the misdeeds of her
father and share the full spectrum of the human condition, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the genius. This touching
tribute to her mother, the Fabulous Betty, brings them full circle as their roles switch with Nicca as her caretaker. —
Bruce Moreland, from his Afterword.

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