Little Weirds

by Jenny Slate

Book Overview

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

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.

One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316485365
• ISBN13: 9780316485364
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

All Time Fave.

jenny slate my love <3 This book is wonderful. its emotional, real, funny- again, I guess if you dont like her writing style (samples of it are available online I believe) then you won't enjoy the book as much because she has such a distinct voice. but Ugh how many times did I re-read certain passages? so many. pieces of it have stuck with me long after reading the book and I will certainly re-read again in the future. makes you notice and appreciate that you are alive.

please buy this

reading this book felt like finding a long-lost, wrongfully discarded piece of my soul. i cried several times reading this book. i learned things about myself from this book. i felt comforted and freed by this book all at the same time. i really couldnt even put into words how much i loved it. i want to kiss jenny slate sweetly on the forehead for gifting it to the world.