Johnnys Girlamp160the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaskaamp8217s underworld as the only child of gambler John F. Johnny Rich and exotic dancer Frances amp8220Gingeramp8221 Rich. It chronicles Alaskaamp8217s mean streets and her parentamp8217s tragic lives that were cut short.amp160Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an afterhours hell of gamblers pimps and con men. She longed for normalcy yet she was inescapably her fathers child and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother who suffered from mental illness was a stripper and Bgirl her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage Alaska in the sixties a city flush with newfound oil money.amp160 Only after her father was gruesomely murdered when she was 15 and Kim became a journalist was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kims true story is a tale of a womans search for her parents secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic but in the end shes able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents lost lives.