Lifeform

“Lifeform is an artifact in which Jenny Slate looks at herself as 'Jenny Slate,' a private person and a public avatar of millennial motherhood.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

“Absurdist humor, magical realism, fanciful self-reflection—in Lifeform, Slate’s second solo effort, she wields all manner of literary embellishments in the name of channeling emotional honesty.”—Washington Post

“Jenny Slate, known for her crackling standup and for voicing Marcel the Shell, here turns her high-wattage attention to the messiness of falling in love, giving birth during a pandemic and adjusting to the “situation” of motherhood—all of it delivered in her singular, zigzagging voice.” —New York Times

“This quirky, totally original book may be a memoir if one is to believe that a human brain can totally live inside a planet of its own making.”—San Francisco Book Review

"Slate’s writing is expansive enough to encompass many kinds of community and parenting; she’s inherently able to reel readers in and make them feel at home...I’ll read anything she writes—up to and including instructions on loading the dishwasher. She’s just that funny, clever, and moving."—Washington Independent Review of Books

“Fans old and new will revel in Lifeform’s self-effacing humor and imaginative writing style. It’s a delightful, memorable immersion in the lifeform that is Jenny Slate”—BookPage (starred review)

“Imaginative, funny, affecting, and hard-to-classify… A wonderfully weird, incomparable, and utterly enjoyable book that readers will be glad simply exists.”—Booklist (starred review)

“At times whimsical in its flights of fancy and always surprising in the moments of lyrical grace it offers, Slate’s book celebrates the transformative power of surrendering to love and life. Delightfully offbeat and unexpectedly moving.”—Kirkus Reviews

"Funny, lyrical, and sometimes strange, these essays pulse with life..."
 —Publishers Weekly