If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait 'til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE...things that will make you laugh out loud...and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future.
The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying...or as she'd say, "embellishing." Her motto was: "Why let the truth ruin a good story?"

This book contains some of those stories.

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"When Joan told a story, the truth disappeared faster than I did."
— Jimmy Hoffa

"If you thought Dante's Inferno was hot, read Lies My Mother Told Me; it's a five-alarmer."
— Dante's second wife, Allie

"Twelve of my twenty-six personalities loved this book."
— Sybil

"The words on the page absolutely crackle and spark; I burned my fingers reading it!"
— Annie Sullivan

"The Bible...