Lifeform

Description

Lifeform
by Jenny Slate

ISBN: 9780316263931
Hardcover, new
Publication Date 10/22/2024

Brief Description:
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.