Swans and Pistols

Modeling, Motherhood, and Making It in the Me Generation

Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to notorious gang members of both Crips and Bloods, wife, mother, award-winning journalist, Lon Bing has not followed the typical path through life. From her formative relationship with her mother to her days as a star model to her sisterly relationship with Mama Cass Elliot and ultimate reinvention as the author of the best-selling gang expos, Do or Die, Swans and Pistols details Bing's always exciting and sometimes dangerous life.

In a series of riveting stories of unconventionality, Bing wrestles with the themes of mothers, daughters, and reinvention - a concept inseparable from the experience of her early adult life in the 1960s and the city she called home.

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