Never Simple

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.