![]() The protagonist, Elizabeth, is a compulsive liar-one only interested in getting close to (and manipulating) other women. It’s devastating.Īs troubling and astute as her memoirs, I, Liar, is a riveting, uncomfortable read, one that builds on its author’s sharp-eyed interest in young women, survival, and deception. Have You Found Her is the account of what happened when the two grew close, Erlbaum convinced she could save Sam from drugs, from the streets, and from herself. That’s where she met Samantha, a magnetic, deeply troubled young woman who reminded Erlbaum of her younger self. Years later, in her thirties and thriving, she volunteered at the same shelter that took her in as a teenager. In her first book, Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard Books 2006), Erlbaum wrote about running away from home at age 15 and seeking refuge in a youth shelter and the streets, both liberated and limited by her life’s instability. Now, six years later, with the recent publication of her first novel I, Liar by the much smaller Thought Catalog Books, Erlbaum is experiencing a new sense of freedom-along with some fresh challenges.īut let’s back up. Though the celebration was a little incongruous for a book that recounted the author’s relationship with a homeless, drug-addicted young woman, it was a clear reflection of mainstream publishing’s enthusiasm for Erlbaum. When Villard Books, a Random House imprint, published Janice Erlbaum’s second memoir, Have You Found Her (2008), Vanity Fair threw her a party at a fancy handbag store. ![]()
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