{"title":"Liz Scheier","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiz Scheier’s memoir writing offers a deeply personal and candid exploration of life’s complexities. Her work is marked by honest reflections and vivid storytelling that captures the nuanced realities of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect intimate narratives that delve into identity, relationships, and the search for meaning, making her books essential for those drawn to thoughtful and authentic biography and memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"never-simple-by-liz-scheier-9781250823137","title":"Never Simple","description":"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\n\nScheier'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 in the grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her life-a 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 Scheier's life to a man she'd never heard of, and two, the man she'd told Scheier was her father was entirely fictional. She'd 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, half-true life for the two of them, from fake social security number to fabricated husband.  \n\nOne 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.\n\nNever Simple is the story of learning to survive-and, finally, trying to save-a complicated parent, as feared as she is loved, and as self-destructive as she is adoring.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48243349422316,"sku":"9781250823137","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250823137-never-simple-1.jpg?v=1787983927"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/liz-scheier.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}