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Can I read This Will Be Funny Later : a Memoir on EtoBox?
This Will Be Funny Later : a Memoir by Jenny Pentland; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is This Will Be Funny Later : a Memoir about?
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#8212;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#8212;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 th
Who reads This Will Be Funny Later : a Memoir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jenny Pentland; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers; Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062962959
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (470 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
