My Dad's Career Is a Bookie and Professional Gambler

"It's an inverted mystery, which is a declaration of the truth," Irvine says. "I woke up every day and realized that they're just living at the dog track." The book takes place 40 miles south of Boston in the 1960s through 2011. It was published by Simon & Schuster on October 1; you can buy it online here.