Never Simple
by Scheier, Liz
Edition statement:First edition Published by : Henry Holt and Company (New York) Physical details: xiv, 271 pages illustrations 25 cm ISBN:9781250823137; 1250823137.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 600 - 699 | 616.890092 Sch (Browse shelf) | Available | 113344 |
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Preface: Liars -- The man who wasn't there -- Yorkville on my mind -- The kids are alright -- That's how the light gets in -- Launched -- Selling for scrap -- Breaking it off -- Switching teams -- Father figure -- Hitched -- That's why they call it labor -- A room full of men -- The apple and the tree -- Gimme shelter -- Detritus -- Mermaid manor -- Checking in -- I lift up my eyes.
"A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--
When Scheier's mother Judith was in the grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her life, she was a violent and abusive liar whose hold on reality was shaky at best. At eighteen Scheier learned that her mother had been married for most of Scheier's life to a man she had never heard of, and the man she thought was her father was entirely fictional. Here Scheier tells a story of decades of learning to survive with a complicated parent, as feared as she is loved, and as self-destructive as she is adoring. -- adapted from jacket
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