Henry Hill was twelve when he first got introduced to the mafia, which happened by complete accident. He had no clue what his life would eventually lay out to be, but being a Wise Guy was all that mattered. Wise Guy is the events of Henry’s life told through Nicholas Pileggi’s interview with him, which took place in a remote location.
Henry and his family live in Brownsville-East New York; Henry’s parents were middle class people just trying to make due with the hard times of 1956. His father had always been raised on the morals of hard work, so at eleven he forced Henry to look for work. Luckily just across the street from where they lived was a cabstand ran by the Varios’. From the moment the Varios found out the Henry has half Sicilian they embraced him as their own son.
As of that moment Hill’s life would be flooded with arson, extortion, and murder. Seeming like the most sever of crimes to modern society, but to the mafia was nothing short of another day of work. This novel has kept me turning the pages till the final words. If you like graphic novels that put you in the scenes, then Wise Guy is defiantly something to read. Pileggi does a fantastic job bringing one man’s life into perspective for anyone who is willing to pick it up.
The mafia has always been a mystery to anyone not involved, but when Hill was pushed into the Witness Protection Program much of this hidden world was revealed. I encourage everyone to read this, to better understand a part of American history that is held by few, but affected millions.
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