Lifeform

Though Slate’s eccentric comedy is a constant, she’s not afraid to get heartfelt … funny, lyrical, and sometimes strange, these essays pulse with life * Publisher’s Weekly * Writer and actress Slate’s second collection of imaginative, funny, affecting, and hard-to-classify pieces delves deeply into her feelings, dreams, and visions about pregnancy and becoming a mother… . Some extra-out-there pieces cement this as another wonderfully weird, incomparable, and utterly enjoyable book that readers will be glad simply exists – Booklist, Starred Review

Jenny Slate is an actress, stand-up comedian, and the New York Times bestselling author of 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. Jenny is a graduate of Columbia University and has a young heart and an antique soul. She lives in a 100-year-old house in the bizarre and fun city Los Angeles, where nobody ever gets old at all.