The story behind the title of Michael Kearns' memoir, The Truth Is Bad Enough, is as delicious as the title itself. As Kearns' parents, themselves worthy of a Tennessee Williams subplot, battled each other at their divorce proceedings when Michael was a child, his father presented damning surveillance of his mother's many infidelities. The evidence was unimpeachable, but then the father tried raising the stakes by charging that the woman also physically abused him.
Kearns' mother couldn't be contained and interrupted the proceedings. "Your honor," she said. "Why is this man lying? The truth is bad enough!"
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