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

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.

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Published Mar 5, 2013

384 pages

Average rating: 6.48

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What-A-Rush
Jan 14, 2025
10/10 stars
She writes like my brain works and I love every page of it!
SamH
Aug 10, 2024
9/10 stars
Laugh out loud funny. I laughed so much reading this at the park that I made a new friend!
Pcarlo
May 25, 2024
1/10 star
I listened to on Audible. Don’t. Made my head spin trying to figure out how this author got a book deal.
RSanquiche
Jun 15, 2022
RS gave 2 stars

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