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For fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Let's Pretend This Never Happened, comedian and Emmy award-winning writer Sara Schaefer's hilariously honest memoir follows Sara's trip through the Grand Canyon with her sister that causes her to reflect on her childhood and the scandal that changed her family forever.When Sara Schaefer is in first grade, her father warns her to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you can't escape. A few years later, the Schaefer family is completely upended when it's revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as binary, opposed forces is drilled into Sara and it becomes the perfect framework on which to build her anxiety and increasingly-obsessive thoughts. The year she turns forty, Sara decides to take each member of her family on a one-on-one vacation culminating with a whitewater rafting journey through the Grand Canyon with her younger sister. The only problem is she's terrified of rafting. Along the way, she grapples with unresolved grief over the death of her mother and the family scandal that changed the trajectory of her life. Heartfelt, candid, and witty, Grand is a story about family, identity, and struggling to make something of yourself. Sara deconstructs her struggles with anxiety and depression, what it means to be a good person, and the radically discordant stories we tell ourselves and share with the world.

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Captures all of the confusion, beauty, and ultimate growth in brilliant prose. Go deep with this one. -- Patton Oswalt, New York Times bestselling author

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Sara Schaefer is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, writer, and producer currently based in Los Angeles. She was the cohost of MTV's late night show Nikki & Sara Live. Sara has appeared on @Midnight, John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Inside Amy Schumer. She won two Emmy Awards for her work at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and has written for Ed Helms's Comedy Central special The Fake News with Ted Nelms, Problematic with Moshe Kasher, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Her digital series Woman Online debuted on Seriously.TV in February 2017. Recently, Sara's stand up show Little White Box debuted to a sold-out run at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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