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CNN can even make book news tabloid-worthy

It’s no “Woman reunited with monkey,” but it’s still pretty sensational:

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling “memoir” depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday.

I hate it when I can’t help blogging about something that I KNOW Leno and Letterman are going to monologue about, but honestly? She said that she lived with a pack of wolves? And that she and the wolves walked 1,900 miles to find her parents? And that Anne Frank was her lesbian lover?* And no one called her a liar until today?

*I made up that last one.

If you are remotely unstable, do not read this book

Justin Evans did not write A Good and Happy Child for mentally unhinged readers. Before you read this thriller, you need to be sound in mind and body, otherwise the book will mess you up. If you have graduated, like me, from your psychological helper person, or you never needed one to begin with, then you are allowed to read A Good and Happy Child. You will love it as only the sane can love something terrifying. If you have ever been visited by demons, witches, or have been prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, then stay away from this book. It will only make things worse for you.

Justin Evans looking boyish

Evans will appear at the Virginia Festival of the Book at the end of March. And don’t let his boyish haircut and eyeglasses deceive you – this man will make you pee your pants.