Let´s Never Talk about This Again: A Memoir

Now in paperback, 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 writer and Mortified liveproducer Sara Faith Alterman. Twelve-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 naïve 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 . . . and announced he´d be reviving his writing career. With Sara´s help. In this cringeworthy, hilarious, and moving memoir, Sara shares the profound experience of discovering new facets of her father; once as a child, and again as an adult. Let´s Never Talk About This Again is a must-read confessional from a woman who spent years trying to find humor in the perverse and optimism in the darkness, and succeeded.