Never Simple A Memoir
eBook - 2022
This gripping and darkly funny memoir "is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love between a mother and a daughter" (Isaac Mizrahi).Liz Scheier's mother was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn't look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, and—when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued her—a masterful liar. On an otherwise uneventful afternoon when Scheier was eighteen, her mother sauntered into the room and dropped two bombshells. First, that she had been married for most of the previous two decades to a man Liz had never heard of and, second, that the man she had claimed was Liz's dead father was entirely fictional. Sh...e'd made him up—his name, the stories, everything.Those big lies were the start, but not the end; it had taken dozens of smaller lies to support them, and by the time she was done she had built a fairy-tale, half-true life for the two of...
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Henry Holt and Co.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 6 GB |
ISBN | 9781250823120 |
Release Date | 3/1/2022 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B092T8G139 |
Release Date | 3/1/2022 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781250823120 |
Release Date | 3/1/2022 |