Where You End and I Begin: A Memoir

A daughter’s remarkable and unflinching memoir exploring the unconventionally intimate relationship she shared with her mother—a brilliant and charismatic woman haunted by past trauma.

When her daughter is eight, Leah McLaren’s mother abruptly fled her life as rural house wife in search a glamorous career in the city. In the chaotic years that follow, Cecily lurches from one apartment, job and toxic romance to the next. In a home without rules or emotional boundaries, Leah and Cecily become...