Rich White Trash

A treasure of love and connection, Rich White Trash is the galloping saga of an enormous—and sometimes crazy—Catholic family living in Austin, Texas. Land, oil, cattle, drugs, sex, religion, rebellion, gun running, politics, and patriotism collide with dreams and dysfunction in this wild, quarter-century ride.

A treasure of love and connection, Rich White Trash is the galloping saga of an enormous—and sometimes crazy—Catholic family living in Austin, Texas. Land, oil, cattle, drugs, sex, religion, rebellion, gun running, politics, and patriotism collide with dreams and dysfunction in this wild, quarter-century ride. The Landry family's 700-acre ranch in the hill country outside Austin was a goldmine the family could always rely on, and patriarch VF Landry believed it would keep his eight children tethered to their roots. But between verbal and physical abuse at the hands of their beautiful mother, their father's obsession with Texas politics, and their own occasional knock-down, blowout fights, the eight Landry kids were determined to live life on their own terms—even if that meant trouble. In this sprawling chronicle, secrets are revealed. Apocryphal treasures are found. Fortunes are made and taken away. And in the end, the land wins. Rich White Trash gives you mystery, love, death, and a heapin' cup full of Texas.

Judi Taylor Cantor grew up in Austin, Texas and graduated cum laude from the University of Texas as Austin in 1976. While in school, she was a columnist for the student newspaper, The Daily Texan. She began a career in marketing by writing ad copy, then briefly spent time in New York writing cover copy for paperback books. She found fundraising is a smart synthesis of doing good while message-shaping, and has been a philanthropic advisor for major non-profit organizations for more than 30 years, most of that time on the East Coast. She is the director of planned giving for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, where she works with donors to shape their legacy and writes quarterly newsletters, brochures and ads for Harvard Public Health magazine. She has written articles for professional journals. Rich White Trash is her first book. She is married with three grown sons and eleven grandchildren. She and her husband live in Newton Centre, MA.