Let's Pretend This Never Happened

The number 1 New York Times bestseller (mostly true) memoir by the humorous author of Furiously Happy.

“A breathtakingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.” — O, The Oprah Magazine

When Jenny Lawson was a child, she longed to belong. This dream was abruptly interrupted by her fantastic, unbalanced father and a morbid, eccentric childhood. Nevertheless, it offered Lawson the opportunity to find humor in the strange spiral of shame in her life, and we are all better for it.

In the irreverent book Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson's long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her discover the surprising realization that the terribly human moments – the ones we’d like to forget – are exactly the moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual outsider who thought they were the only one thinking the things Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a touching and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderfully human moments of our lives.

Reader's guide included

About the Author

Known for her sarcastic wit and hysterically warped view of life, Jenny Lawson has made millions of people doubt their own sanity while admitting that they too have often wondered why Jesus isn't classified as a zombie, or laughed until they peed when they accidentally forgot they had sent themselves a cobra. Lawson's blog is award-winning and immensely popular, and she is regarded by at least three or four people as one of the funniest writers of our generation.