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This Will Be Funny Later - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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This Will Be Funny Later - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the
shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of
absolute chaos that is both a moving portrait of a complicated
family and an exploration of the cost of fame. Growing up, Jenny
Pentland's life was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for
her mother's smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's
early family life in working-class Denver. But that was only the
beginning of the drama. Roseanne Barr's success as a comedian
catapulted the family from the Rockies to star-studded
Hollywood-with its toxic culture of money, celebrity, and prying
tabloids that was destabilizing for a child in grade school. By
adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues. Her
parents and new stepfather, struggling to help, responded by
sending Jenny and her siblings on a grand tour of the self-help
movement of the '80s-from fat camps to brat camps, wilderness
survival programs to drug rehab clinics (even though Jenny didn't
take drugs). Becoming an adult, all Jenny wanted was to get married
and have kids, despite Roseanne's admonishments not to limit
herself to being just a wife and mother. In this scathingly funny
and moving memoir, Pentland reveals what it's like to grow up as
the daughter of a television star and how she navigated the
turmoil, eventually finding her own path. Now happily married and
raising five sons on a farm, Pentland has worked tirelessly to
create the stable family she never had, while coming to terms at
last with her deep-seated anxiety. This Will Be Funny Later is a
darkly funny and frank chronicle of transition, from childhood to
adulthood and motherhood-one woman's journey to define herself and
create the life she always wanted.
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