New York: Scribner, (2007). First edition - The author's first book, one which attempts to explore why - when told her mother was in a coma and would not survive - she did not go to her. She describes her life as the daughter of a narcissistic and addictive mother - but also a glamorous and charismatic one - who lived in a world of compulsive lies, and dependence on cocaine, narcotics, and sex - all things to which she introduced her daughter. "The glory of this memoir is that the author survived her traumatic childhood and somehow navigated her way to a deftly written book capturing her dismantled youth. . . we are allowed to feel the strange and powerful familial currencies running between mother and daughter through the keenly observed writing of Sonnenberg." (Molly Jay) An uncommon advance issue.