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Little Weirds

Step into Jenny Slate's wild, unfiltered imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris) and "poignant" (John Mulaney) collection about love, heartbreak and being alive --- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).

You may "know" Jenny Slate from her new Netflix special, "Stage Fright," or 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, and everything has changed.

Audiobook available, read by Jenny Slate

Little Weirds
by Jenny Slate

  • Publication Date: November 24, 2020
  • Genres: Essays, Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
  • ISBN-10: 0316485365
  • ISBN-13: 9780316485364