Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

One woman's memoir about her alcoholism and struggle to flourish despite the looming shadow of a famous father and an emotionally abusive, damaged mother.

Her mother was a brainy knockout with sultry beauty, a raconteur whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence. Her father was the distinguished National Book Award–winning author of four renowned World War II novels. A daughter of privilege with a seemingly fairy-tale-like life, Kaylie Jones was raised in the Hamptons ...