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Samantha Irby meets Bettyville in this darkly funny and poignant memoir about love, loss, Alzheimer's, and reviving her father's pornographic writing career from Mortified writer and producer Sara Faith Alterman. 12-year-old Sara enjoyed an G-rated existence in suburban New England, filled with over-the-top birthday cakes, Revolutionary War reenactments, and nerdy word games invented by her prudish father, Ira. But Sara's world changed for the icky, when she discovered that Ira had been shielding her from the truth; that he was a campy sex writer who'd sold millions of books in multiple languages, including the wildly popular 'Games You Can Play with Your Pussy.' Which was, to the naive Sara's horror, not a book about cats. For decades the books remained an unspoken family secret, until Ira developed early onset Alzheimer's disease.



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Sara Faith Alterman

I'm a Bostonian at heart and a San Franciscan at present. I spend most of my time writing, making puns, thinking about nachos, and producing 'Mortified,' the acclaimed stage show and podcast that features brave adults reading from their gorgeously awkward teenage diaries.Bylines: The New York Times, the Boston Globe, McSweeney's, Architectural DigestContributions: "Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About Grief," "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure."



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