Scheier, Liz
Never Simple Never simple a memoir Liz Scheier - First edition - New York Henry Holt and Company 2022 - xiv, 271 pages illustrations 25 cm
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. Preface: Liars --
"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
9781250823137 1250823137
2021019083
Scheier, Liz
Scheier, Liz--Family
Bachrach, Nancy
Mental illness--United States--Biography
Mentally ill parents--United States--Biography
Mothers and daughters--United States
Medical / Internal Medicine
Families
Mental illness
United States
RC463 / .S34 2022
616.890092 Sch 12
Never Simple Never simple a memoir Liz Scheier - First edition - New York Henry Holt and Company 2022 - xiv, 271 pages illustrations 25 cm
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. Preface: Liars --
"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
9781250823137 1250823137
2021019083
Scheier, Liz
Scheier, Liz--Family
Bachrach, Nancy
Mental illness--United States--Biography
Mentally ill parents--United States--Biography
Mothers and daughters--United States
Medical / Internal Medicine
Families
Mental illness
United States
RC463 / .S34 2022
616.890092 Sch 12