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Your Life Is A Lie: Your Parents Created a False Reality
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 5 2020
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Santa Claus is not real. The Tooth Fairy was mom. The goldfish that went to live at the aquarium went somewhere else. You were not the smartest child who ever existed. These are the revelations this book delivers with the systematic efficiency of a disclosure document that should have been provided earlier but has been compiled now, in illustrated cartoon form, for everyone who received a childhood built on fictions that adults agreed were kinder than the truth. Your parents lied to you. The lies were extensive. The lies were also, in most cases, kind. This book documents all of them anyway.
This adult parody book is an audit of the convenient childhood fictions that form the foundation of most people's early years and that collapse, one by one, through late childhood and adolescence into the realization that adults maintain an elaborate alternative reality for children until they are old enough to handle the version everyone else has been living in. The fictions are documented. The reality that replaced them is noted. The comparison is funny. The comparison is also everything.
This Book IS For:- Adults who grew up to discover that their childhood was built on a series of fictions they were not consulted about
- Fans of humor that is funny because it's accurate and accurate because it documents something universal
- Anyone who has been in the middle of a normal adult moment and suddenly understood what their parents were actually doing the whole time
- Gift-givers who want to hand someone a complete audit of the false reality they were raised in
- People who still believe some of the items on this list and are not ready for the audit
- Parents who have constructed an elaborate false reality for their children and find this disclosure premature
- Readers who believe the childhood fictions are more valuable than truth and should be maintained indefinitely
- Children... this is their future reading material, and it will make more sense after several more years of information
- Milestone birthdays... especially the ones where the accumulation of disclosed fictions has reached a meaningful total
- White elephant exchanges among adults who have compared notes on their respective childhood false realities
- Graduation gifts for people entering the real world who might appreciate a complete inventory of what they're leaving behind
- Gag gifts for the friend who recently discovered something their parents did that required a significant recontextualization
Childhood costs parents an enormous amount of effort in maintenance of the alternative reality. The tooth fairy logistics alone represent a significant operational commitment over multiple years. This book represents the accounting that was never provided: a clear list of what was real and what was managed, delivered in the same illustrated children's book format that delivered several of the original fictions. The format choice is intentional. The list is comprehensive. The revelations land harder because the format is so cheerful.
Your life is a lie. Most of the lie was kindness. Some of it was convenience. A little of it was avoidance. The book covers all three categories and the illustrations are genuinely charming despite the subject matter, which is appropriate because the fictions themselves were charming, and the charm was the whole point, and this book acknowledges the charm while also acknowledging that it was a charm applied to something that wasn't true. That's the gift. Buy it. Your parents made you something. This book audits what.
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