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Never Simple Audiobook Summary

“the audiobook is compelling and, on occasion, jaw-dropping.”– Vulture

Liz Scheier’s darkly funny and touching memoir–with shades of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Mira Bartok’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 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.

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 survive–and, finally, trying to save–a complicated parent, as feared as she is loved, and as self-destructive as she is adoring.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

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Never Simple Audiobook Narrator

Amy Landon is the narrator of Never Simple audiobook that was written by Liz Scheier

Liz Scheier is a former Penguin Random House editor who worked in publishing and content development for many years, including at Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon. She writes book reviews and feature articles for Publishers Weekly. She is now a product developer living in Washington, D.C., with her husband, two small children, and an ill-behaved cat. Never Simple is her first book.

About the Author(s) of Never Simple

Liz Scheier is the author of Never Simple

Never Simple Full Details

Narrator Amy Landon
Length 8 hours 27 minutes
Author Liz Scheier
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date March 01, 2022
ISBN 9781250840356

Subjects

The publisher of the Never Simple is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Women

Additional info

The publisher of the Never Simple is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250840356.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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