Little Weirds: ‘Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring' George Saunders

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Jenny Slate

Little Weirds

‘Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring' George Saunders

Jenny Slate

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FLEET
24 November 2020

Biography; Memoirs; Literary essays

'Magical' MINDY KALING

'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY

'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS

To see the world through Jenny Slate'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 gases that are science gases, 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.

'Delicious' AMY SEDARIS

'Slate invites us for a glorious swim inside her imagination as she explores romance, heartbreak and self-love in this poetry-memoir-fiction mash-up' PEOPLE

'I couldn't help but feel that it was written by a friend for me' VANITY FAIR

By: Jenny Slate
Imprint: FLEET
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9780349726427
ISBN 10: 0349726426
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Little Weirds: ‘Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring' George Saunders

This book is something new and wonderful - honest, funny, positive, completely original, and inspiring in the very best way: it made me remember I was alive Jenny's writing is magical and stylish, just like her. Each essay in Little Weirds feels like a vivid, cinematic experience, full of original observations and unexpected laughs This book is like a stovetop goulash, delicious and varied ingredients, prepared perfectly and excellent with bread . . . I'm sorry, I lost track of the simile A man on the 2 Express Train read some of Jenny Slate's Little Weirds over my shoulder. 'What kind of book is this?' he asked. 'The best kind,' I replied Luminous, emotional, lovely, and a little mysterious, this book is something you will savor like a half-remembered, gorgeous dream. You'll finish it feeling like Jenny Slate is your new best friend