Let's Pretend This Never Happened

A Mostly True Memoir

Paperback, 370 pages

Published April 21, 2013 by Berkeley.

ISBN:
978-0-425-26101-9
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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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Let's Pretend This Never Happened

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1) "If you compared the Wall, Texas, of today with the Wall, Texas, of my childhood, you would hardly recognize it, because the Wall, Texas, of today has a gas station. And if you think having a gas station is not that big of a deal, then you're probably the kind of person who grew up in a town that has a gas station, and that doesn't encourage students to drive to school in their tractors. [...] Our yearbook theme one year was simply 'Where's Wall?' because it was the question you'd get asked every time you told someone you lived there. The original—and more apt—theme had been 'Where the fuck is Wall?' but the yearbook teacher quickly shot down that concept, saying that age-appropriate language was important, even at the cost of journalistic accuracy."

2) "Every time we'd go back to visit West Texas it would change …