Overview
Liz Scheierās darkly funny and touching memoirāwith shades of Jeannette Wallsās The Glass Castle and Mira BartĆ³kās The Memory Palaceāof growing up in ā90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother
Scheierās mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldnāt look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, andāwhen in the grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her lifeāa violent and abusive liar whose hold on reality was shaky at best. On an uneventful afternoon when Scheier was eighteen, her mother sauntered into the room to tell her two important things: one, she had been married for most of Scheierās life to a man sheād never heard of, and two, the man sheād told Scheier was her father was entirely fictional. Sheād made him up. Those two big lies were the start, but not the end; it took dozens of smaller lies to support them, and by the time she was done she had built a farcical, half-true life for the two of them, from fake social security number to fabricated husband.
One hot July day twenty years later, Scheier receives a voicemail from Adult Protective Services, reporting that Judith has stopped paying rent and is refusing all offers of assistance. That call is the start of a shocking journey that takes the Scheiers, mother and daughter, deep into the cascading effects of decades of lies and deception.
Never Simple is the story of learning to surviveāand, finally, trying to saveāa complicated parent, as feared as she is loved, and as self-destructive as she is adoring.
This book title, Never Simple (A Memoir), ISBN: 9781250823137, by Liz Scheier, published by Henry Holt and Co. (March 1, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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