Abbreviated Life

A "mesmerizing" memoir of growing up under siege with an unstable, unreliable mother (The New York Times).Ariel Leve grew up in Manhattan with an eccentric mother she describes as "a poet, an artist, a self-appointed troublemaker and attention seeker." Leve learned to become her own parent, taking care of herself and her mother''s needs. There would be uncontrolled, impulsive rages followed by den...