Let's Pretend This Never Happened

‘When I tell people that my father is kind of a total lunatic, they laugh and nod knowingly. They assure me that theirs is too, and that he’s just a ‘typical father’.’ But does the typical father run a full-time taxidermy business out of the house, and show up at the local bar with a miniature donkey and a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator? Does the typical father say things like ‘Happy birthday! Here’s a bathtub of raccoons!’ or ‘We’ll have to take your car. Mine has too much blood in it’?  When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father.

Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012