Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Jenny Lawson

Apr 2012 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

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

Ratings and reviews

Badly written. There's a fine line between "creative writing" and "unnecessarily convoluted, nonsensical drivel" and this author crosses that line incessantly, to the point where the simplest sentences are confusing and hard to read. If you remove the excess word-vomit stuffed into this "memoir", it would be about 1/4 of its current length. I can't believe I paid for this. More fool I.

I never laughed so hard, out loud, at writing before in my life. I hate to tell you how great it is and then you read disappointed because it was so over inflated, so just read it for yourself and see. But if you didn't stomp your feet gasping for air or have a many knee-slapping moments then you I don't think you let her book take you to that giddy place that every reader I know has achieved with this quality piece of art!

Jenny Lawson came into my life when I needed it most. I had no idea who she was when a friend invited me into a group on FB that was like-minded folks that essentially formed a sort-of fan club for The Bloggess. Every one of her books has infused life into me. This was no exception. Her musings are witty and delightful. Think of them as words that virtually hug you.

About the author

Known for her sardonic wit and her hysterically skewed outlook on life, Jenny Lawson has made millions of people question their own sanity, as they found themselves admitting that they, too, often wondered why Jesus wasn’t classified as a zombie, or laughed to the point of bladder failure when she accidentally forgot that she mailed herself a cobra. Lawson’s blog (TheBloggess.com) is award-winning and extremely popular, and she is considered one of the funniest writers of our generation by at least three or four people.