



She recounts a Cinderella-style courtship and fairy-tale wedding, but then descends into airing her grievances against certain Madoff relatives. "'Was my life real', he would often ask." In her book, Stephanie Madoff Mack declares her husband's innocence while offering what little insight she can into his death. Both Bernie's sons worked for him and, presumed by many to be complicit in their father's crimes, were smacked with lawsuits and hounded by the media accordingly. Sadly, Bernie Madoff's eldest son took his own life in late 2010, two years to the day after his father was arrested, leaving his wife and two young children to face "life after Bernie" alone. The End of Normal is a memoir by the widow of Mark Madoff, son of the notorious American businessman who defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme.
