LIFEFORM

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