Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir

This memoir from actress, producer, and survivor Auder, oldest daughter of one of Andy Warhol’s superstars Viva Hoffmann, is surprisingly candid and scorchingly observant. Auder entered the world on film: her father, French filmmaker Michel Auder, recorded the event, from Hoffman contracting in the Chelsea Hotel lobby to the birth hours later in the hospital. After her parents split, Auder and her mother and later, her half-sister, actress Gaby Hoffmann, lived a seemingly adventuresome bohemian life in New York City. As a child and teen, Auder hung out with downtown New York’s finest and most outlandish, traveled with her bright and unstable mother from Chelsea to Connecticut, California, Mexico, and the Hoffmann family compound, where high drama and family fights were daily occurrences, and contended with her mother’s many moods. Escape to her father’s Tribeca loft was no less confusing. He fought drug addiction for many years and often left the parenting duties to his wife, artist Cindy Sherman. Despite all this dysfunction, or perhaps because of it, Auder carved out a life of her own, with a supportive husband and two kids.