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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Author(s): Jenny Lawson

Location(s): Texas

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): Modern

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Every teenager wants to fit in and be just like everybody else. So imagine how hard that is when your father runs a taxidermy business out of the family home, your mother runs the student cafeteria, and your sister has just been elected high school mascot, which means she walks the halls in a giant bird costume. But as Jenny Lawson grows up, falls in love, gets engaged – in a way that is as disastrous as it is romantic – and starts a family of her own, she learns that life’s most absurd and humiliating moments, the ones we wish we could pretend had never happened, are the very same moments that make us who we are. This is an often poignant, sometimes disturbing, but always hilarious book from a writer that dares to say your deepest and strangest thoughts out loud. Like laughter at a funeral, it is both highly irreverent and impossible to stop once you’ve started . . .

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‘Frankly, it would be hard to grow up free of eccentricities if one s strongest memories of childhood involved a taxidermist father bringing home all manner of fierce creatures, alive and dead…The best and...

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