“I was married when you were born. But not to your father.”

On an otherwise uneventful afternoon when I was eighteen years old, my mother sauntered into the room and dropped two bombshells. One, that she had been married for most of the previous two decades to a man I had never heard of. And second, that the man she’d claimed was my dead father was entirely fictional. She’d made him up - his name, the stories, everything.

Never Simple is the story of what happened next.

Never Simple has garnered praise from the New York Times, Publishers Weekly (starred review), Kirkus, Library Journal, Bookpage, Booklist, and bestselling authors Augusten Burroughs, Jenny Lawson, Isaac Mizrahi, Elissa Altman, Greer Hendricks, and Mira Bartók. It was chosen as a Best Book of March by Amazon and Apple Books, a People Picks by People Magazine, an Indie Next pick, a Barnes & Noble Top 10 Favorite Ebook of 2022, and was featured as one of “15 March Reads to Get You Through the Month” on Good Morning America. It was a finalist for a Lambda Award.