Lauren Slater's _Spasm_ is actually the first printing of _Lying_. For those of you who have not yet read this memoir it is fascinating, playful, meaningful, and tricky. The narrative revolves around Slater's childhood and her metaphor of epilepsy to explain the gaps in her memory. These gaps she fills with narrative, tales, ideas, theories that all come to her during her "auras" (the pre-stage of a "spasm" or "seizure"). Written in a very fluid manner, the tale guides the reader through a poetic symphony of words, ideas, thoughts, and drama. You will not be able to put this novel-memoir down. The line between truth and fiction, reality and memory are truly blurred in this wonderfully "slippery" prose.