ROMANCE

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

by Jenny Lawson

Amy Einhorn: Putnam. ISBN 9780399159015. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101573082. MEMOIR

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A memoir about growing up poor in rural Texas and learning to live with mental illness doesn't sound like a laugh-out-loud read, but Lawson, better known online as The Bloggess, has a way with gallows humor and a knack for providing nontreacly support to anyone struggling with loneliness, anxiety, chronic pain, or depression. Plus, after her stories about life with a taxidermist father, readers will never look at a dead squirrel in the same way.—Stephanie Klose

Reviewed by Stephanie Klose , Dec 20, 2012

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