The Most Wonderful Terrible Person

“Debra Miller’s writing is courageous and vulnerable as she scrapes at scabs that still feel unhealed after all these years. Choose me are the words that seem to jump off every page—a plea from Miller to her father’s ghost, her manipulative mother, and all the men she sends away before they can leave her. Picking up Miller’s memoir feels like choosing her.”—Bridey Thelen-Heidel, author of Bright Eyes: Surviving Our Monsters and Learning to Live Without Them – A Memoir “Like digging up a time capsule, Debra unearths a past filled with drugs, sex, and alcohol in the aftermath of her mother murdering her father. A remarkable memoir filled with searing pain, loss, and a deep need for love.”—Stephanie Maley, author of No Longer That Girl

Debra Miller grew up in San Bernardino County, where her mother was convicted of murdering her father when Debra was fourteen years old—the story she chronicles in The Most Wonderful Terrible Person, which is her debut memoir. She taught high school English for thirty-three years at an all-girls school in Los Angeles, California. Now retired, she lives in Playa del Rey, California, with her precious cat, Kiki.