Augusten Burroughs

A darkly funny and touching memoir about growing up in '90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother. Liz Scheier's mother was a fast-talking charmer, a violent and abusive liar whose hold on reality was shaky at best. When her mother reveals some shocking secrets years later, it sets off a journey that takes them both deep into the cascading effects of decades of lies and deception. Never Simple is the story of learning to survive a complicated parent as feared as she is loved.

This Hitchcockian thriller follows an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. A recluse in her NYC home, Anna Fox spends her days drinking wine, watching old movies, and spying on her neighbors. When the seemingly perfect new family across the way moves in, Anna's world and dark secrets are laid bare. In this diabolically gripping and sophisticated psychological suspense, no one and nothing is what it seems.