Book
Never simple
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.
Physical Description
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
When Scheier's mother Judith was in the grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her life, she was a violent and abusive liar whose hold on reality was shaky at best. At eighteen Scheier learned that her mother had been married for most of Scheier's life to a man she had never heard of, and the man she thought was her father was entirely fictional. Here Scheier tells a story of decades of learning to survive with a complicated parent, as feared as she is loved, and as self-destructive as she is adoring.
Contents
- The man who wasn't there
- Yorkville on my mind
- The kids are alright
- That's how the light gets in
- Launched
- Selling for scrap
- Breaking it off
- Switching teams
- Father figure
- Hitched
- That's why they call it labor
- A room full of men
- The apple and the tree
- Gimme shelter
- Detritus
- Mermaid manor
- Checking in
- I lift up my eyes.