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In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater blends a coming-of-age story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever possible to tell-or to know-the facts about a self, a human being, a life.

In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater blends a coming-of-age story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever possible to tell-or to know-the facts about a self, a human being, a life. Lying chronicles the doctors, the tests, the seizures, the family embarrassments, even as it explores a sensitive child's illness as both metaphor and a means of attention-getting-a human being's susceptibility to malady, and to storytelling as an act of healing and as part of the quest for love.

Her previous book, Lying, was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2000. Slater lives with her family in Massachusetts.

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Lauren Slater is trying to challenge the reader's concepts of reality and truth in her book Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. The idea of the story potentially being false is first presented in the introduction, which is written by a fictional psychologist. I think it is interesting that she included this, because if she hadn't, the reveal of her potential lie about epilepsy would have come more gradual.

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. Primary Category: Literature, Nonfiction. During adolescence, Lauren begins lying, stealing, and faking seizures to get attention

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. Annotated by: Belling, Catherine. During adolescence, Lauren begins lying, stealing, and faking seizures to get attention. She reveals that she has developed Munchausen's Syndrome, whose sufferers are "makers of myths that are still somehow true, the illness a conduit to convey real pain" (88). Later she attends a writer's workshop where she begins an affair with a married man, a writer much older than she.

Seizure chronicles the doctors, the tests, the seizures, the family embarrassments, even as it explores a sensitive child's illness as both metaphor and a means of attention-getting - a human being's susceptibility to malady, and to storyt.

Seizure chronicles the doctors, the tests, the seizures, the family embarrassments, even as it explores a sensitive child's illness as both metaphor and a means of attention-getting - a human being's susceptibility to malady, and to storytelling as an act of healing and as part of the quest for love. This mesmerizing memoir openly questions the reliability of memoir itself, the trickiness of the mind in perceiving reality, the slippery nature of illness and diagnosis - the shifting perceptions and images of who we are and what, for God's sake, is the matter with us.

She is the author of nine books, including Welcome To My Country (1996), Prozac Diary (1998), and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir (2000). Her 2004 book Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, a description of psychology experiments "narrated as stories", has drawn both praise and criticism

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir is a 2001 book by Lauren Slater. Slater herself suffers from mental illness, as chronicled in several other of her books (such as, more recently, Prozac Diary, published in 2011).

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir is a 2001 book by Lauren Slater. In this memoir, Slater goes all the way back to her early childhood, at which points she claims to have been epileptic. The narrator is unreliable at best. Slater claims that her mother was an alcoholic and that her father was a teacher at Hebrew school.

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One has good reason to be suspicious of a book that calls itself a metaphorical memoir

In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions.