Lauren Slater is passionately dedicated to the truth, which for her is more important than the facts.
In Blessed Unrest’s original adaptation of Slater’s electrifying memoir, reality and fantasy blur as we meet her three-headed mother, a deceptive neurosurgeon, a slow-dancing messiah, and one very famous lover. LYING offers a mesmerizing, metaphoric exploration of self-knowledge, personal history, and the deeper, juicier truth that lies beneath the literal.
Lauren Slater is a psychologist and writer whose books include Prozac Diary, Welcome To My Country and Opening Skinner’s Box. She has received numerous awards and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s and The Moth. Her novel exposes the power of metaphor in relating a life, and openly questions the reliability of memoir itself by exploring the slippery nature of memory and the trickiness of the mind in perceiving reality.
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