num_pages: 221
description: In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions. Mixing memoir with mendacity, Slater examines memories of her youth, when after being diagnosed with a strange illness she developed seizures and neurological disturbances—and the compulsion to lie. Openly questioning the reliability of memoir itself, Slater presents the mesmerizing story of a young woman who discovers not only what plagues her but also what cures her—the birth of her sensuality, her creativity as an artist, and storytelling as an act of healing.
language: English
title: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
titlecomplete: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
genres: Read For School, Coming Of Age, Biography, Mental Illness, Psychology, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 2297
publisher: Penguin