Little Weirds
Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination with this New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive. You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed. "Poignant." --John Mulaney "Magical." --Mindy Kaling "Delicious." --Amy Sedaris "This book is something new and wonderful." --George Saunders
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I adored this book and all of its nonsensensical beauty. It feels divinely feminine, whimsical and youthful, and so so human. I love Jenny Slate’s work outside of this, but it was so meaningful to get to hear her personal unfiltered thoughts, dreams, and visions. it’s a collection of short stories from her life, strange questions she ponders, and seemingly manic streams of consciousness. There is also a common theme throughout in which she imagines herself dying, and all of the silly ways in which that could look. However, by far my most favorite chapters were those that were a bit more serious, my favorite being “I Died: Bronze Tree”. If nothing else, read that chapter and have yourself a cry.
Jenny slate is a beauty and a star and also a very real and chaotic human and this book made me feel very seen. It also offered me wonderful new perspectives and romanticizations of being a human woman in the world.