Never Simple Audiobook Libro.fm

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Liz Scheiers darkly funny and touching memoirwith shades of Jeannette Wallss The Glass Castle and Mira Bartks The Memory Palaceof growing up in 90s Manhattan with a brilliant mendacious single mother

Scheiers mother Judith was a news junkie a hilarious storyteller a fasttalking charmer you couldnt look away from a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession andwhen in the grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her lifea violent and abusive liar whose hold on reality was shaky at best On an uneventful afternoon when Scheier was eighteen her mother sauntered into the room to tell her two important things one she had been married for most of Scheiers life to a man shed never heard of and two the man shed told Scheier was her father was entirely fictional Shed made him up Those two big lies were the start but not the end it took dozens of smaller lies to support them and by the time she was done she had built a farcical halftrue life for the two of them from fake social security number to fabricated husband

One hot July day twenty years later Scheier receives a voicemail from Adult Protective Services reporting that Judith has stopped paying rent and is refusing all offers of assistance That call is the start of a shocking journey that takes the Scheiers mother and daughter deep into the cascading effects of decades of lies and deception

Never Simple is the story of learning to surviveand finally trying to savea complicated parent as feared as she is loved and as selfdestructive as she is adoring

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company