[1] The Atlanta Journal and Constitution described Bandit as: "a book about stories and character, of how events and actions shape who we are, how a father becomes one person, how a daughter grows up to be another.
"[4] In a feature on NPR's All Things Considered, Brodak described the ethical process of Bandit's subject, which detailed her experience as the daughter of a multiple felon bankrobber in Detroit, Michigan: "Every family has darkness and heaviness that people would prefer to not talk about.
Her poem Jesus inspired the song I WHO BEND THE TALL GRASSES by Lingua Ignota.
[9] Brodak was also the founder of Kookie House, a baking blog about unique cookies and cakes.
[12] According to The New York Times, her husband, Blake Butler, gave the cause of death as suicide by gunshot.