Liz Scheier

Liz Scheier's darkly funny and touching memoir-with shades of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók's The Memory Palace-of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother Scheier's mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn't look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, and-when...