About the Book : Never Simple : A Daughters True Story of a Mothers Made-Up
Life
This gripping and darkly funny memoir "is a testament to the undeniable,
indestructible love between a mother and a daughter" (Isaac Mizrahi).
Liz Scheiers mother was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking
charmer you couldnt look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the
line into obsession, and—when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued
her—a masterful liar. On an otherwise uneventful afternoon when Scheier was
eighteen, her mother sauntered into the room and dropped two bombshells. First,
that she had been married for most