Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

By Jenny Lawson

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

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Published Mar 5, 2013

384 pages

Average rating: 6.41

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7/10 stars
Oh wow, this book hit. Jenny is ALL OVER THE PLACE, but damn how did she get inside my head?! Hilarious and all over the place- written by/like a blogger. Book #1 in 2026 3⭐️
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10/10 stars
She writes like my brain works and I love every page of it!
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9/10 stars
Laugh out loud funny. I laughed so much reading this at the park that I made a new friend!

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