Summary of Liz Scheier's Never Simple

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#1 I had a mother who was a widow, and I loved her. But she was a bad liar, and I could tell when she was lying to me. I loved her so much that I didn’t want to believe she was lying to me.

#2 I knew something was wrong with my mother’s story, but I couldn’t figure out what. She was reluctant to talk about him, and she was afraid that if she told me the truth, I would find out that they weren’t married.

#3 I would go around her apartment and page through her photo albums while she was down in our apartment building’s hot, airless laundry room. I had no idea who I was really living with, only that she transformed behind that locked door.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669375203

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Insights on Liz Scheier's Never Simple

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had a mother who was a widow, and I loved her. But she was a bad liar, and I could tell when she was lying to me. I loved her so much that I didn’t want to believe she was lying to me.

#2

I knew something was wrong with my mother’s story, but I couldn’t figure out what. She was reluctant to talk about him, and she was afraid that if she told me the truth, I would find out that they weren’t married.

#3

I would go around her apartment and page through her photo albums while she was down in our apartment building’s hot, airless laundry room. I had no idea who I was really living with, only that she transformed behind that locked door.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I grew up in New York City in the 80s. My New York was Shirley Temples in tiki mugs at Panda Garden on Second Avenue, old Hungarian men patting my hair as I raced past the Orthodox church on Seventy-Ninth Street, and Simon Garfunkel’s concert in Central Park.

#2

I had a very active mother, who was always on the lookout for new adventures and activities for me and my brother. We never took