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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.