The Godfather's Daughter

An Unlikely Story of Love, Healing, and Redemption

Rita Gigante grew up in a world swirling with secrets, lies, and multiple sins.

Her father, notorious Mafia boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, was the leader of the Genovese crime clan and the head of all five New York crime families for decades. But until Rita was sixteen, she was kept in the dark about his underworld activities. She unknowingly hung out at mob headquarters and witnessed her dad's whispered meetings around the dinner table, but only knew what she was told by her mother and siblings about his odd behavior: Dad's sick. Keep your mouth shut. Don't talk about the family.

Living with the family secret--and other shocking betrayals she was to uncover, then instructed to conceal--plunged Rita into emotional and physical turmoil for years. And then there was the blockbuster secret she herself kept hidden away: As the youngest girl in an old-fashioned, devout Catholic family, how could she confess to the unforgiving Godfather that she was a lesbian? They were all going to hell, she figured... unless she could find a way to embrace the truth and find redemption.

In The Godfather's Daughter, Rita details her spiritual journey as she unravels the mysteries of her family and herself, and learns what it means to live in the truth she finds. It's a real-life father-daughter tale of betrayal and faith, violence and love--and how a young woman escaped from a spiraling darkness to reach the light.

©2012 Amazon KDP (P)2025 Rita Gigante

Gripping - will keep you glued

I found Rita Gigante on TikTok and liked her content. To my surprise she wrote a great book. You’re supposed to read this book. I couldn’t stop listening.

Very captivating

I loved this book! Kept my attention the whole time! I am so glad you found your calling

Emotional and powerful

I like that Rita is narrating this book herself. It becomes so much more personal hearing her tell her own story. And a crazy story it is. No one should ever be made to feel the way she did. This is one of those laugh and cry stories. I'm glad she found her way and this is one of those inspirational hard luck stories that provides encouragement to others. Thank you for sharing your personal story, Rita.

The purity of who Rita is.

Rita’s voice was definitely an excellent choice to narrate her own book. This book takes you through a literal internal pole. That’s so many of us could never wrap our brains around. I loved how she read it and I am truly grateful as a person for her, sharing it, because as someone who comes from a childhood of abuse of another kind, this all made sense and mattered deeply to me. Thank you, Rita Giganti.

Loved it!

Great story. Really kept my attention and author read it authentically and easy to listen to!