Slate, Jenny

Lifeform -- Jenny Slate, Hardcover

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From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds, Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you've never seen it before

What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal--but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases--Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing--through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.

Author: Jenny Slate
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316263931

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2024 pg. 15

About the Author
Jenny Slate is an actress, stand-up comedian, and the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collection Little Weirds the children's book Marcel The Shell with Shoes On. She has been in many movies and TV shows and also plays many cartoon animals.

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