Let's Pretend This Never Happened
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4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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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In punchy chapters that cover a fairly uneventful life in the southern Republican regions, blogger Lawson achieves an exaggerated sarcasm that occasionally attains a belly laugh from the reader ("I grew up a poor black girl in New York. Except replace 'black' with 'white' and 'New York' with 'rural Texas' "), but mostly descends into rants about bodily functions and dead animals spiced with profanity. The daughter of a taxidermist whose avid foraging and hunting filled their "violently rural" Wall, Tex., house with motley creatures like raccoons and turkeys and later triggered some anxiety disorder, Lawson did not transcend her childhood horrors so much as return to them, marrying at age 22 a fellow student at a local San Angelo college, Victor, and settling down in the town with a job in "HR" while Victor worked "in computers." In random anecdotal segments Lawson treats the vicissitudes of her 15-year marriage, the birth of daughter Hailey after many miscarriages, some funny insider secrets from the HR office, and an attempt to learn to trust women by spending a weekend in California wine country with a group of bloggers. With little substantive writing on these subjects, however, Lawson's puerile sniggering and potty mouth gets old fast.
Customer Reviews
Jenny Rocks
When Jenny Lawson tells stories, one can’t help but laugh. I wish there were more stories and less random ruminations here. But overall worth a read. Her later books are better composed and organized.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
This book proves I am normal no matter what anyone says.
Nonstop gut-wrenching laughs
Jenny Lawson is divine! I'm sure she writes just like she speaks and that makes the book so much more enjoyable. I take comfort in the fact that she and her family are just as crazy as me and mine. I laughed through the entire book, but quite a few times I found myself laughing so hard I couldn't keep my eyes open. I read parts aloud to my husband who looked at me like I was nuts... Then I'd tell him, "Oh my God, they're just like us!" I can't wait for book two (I hope she tells us about this twin she ingested).