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 - chronicles growing up in '90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother. Scheier's mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, and a fast-talking charmer you couldn't look away from. She was a single mother whose...