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Little weirds

Uniform Title
Essays. Selections.
Title
Little weirds / Jenny Slate.
ISBN
9780316485340
0316485349
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019.
Physical Description
ix, 224 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes
Short autobiographical essays.
Summary
"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 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, Slate channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive that we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, and everything has changed"--Dust jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 06, 2019
Contents
Treat
Introduction/explanation/guidelines for consumption
I was born : the list
Fast bad baby
My mother
Deerhoof/dream deer
Restaurant
Daydreams/tides
I want to look out a window
I died : Valentine's Day
Ghosts
Color-spirit
Letter : dreams
Trench-times/dream dog
Eclipse
Touch vs. smack
I died : listening
Beach animals
A prayer
I was born : about to bust
Nice things to do for tipping yourself toward gentleness and simple joy
I died : the sad songs of my vagina
Mouse house
Holding the dog
I died : bonked
The pits
To Norway
Hillside
Important questions
I died : sardines
Sit?
Kathleen/Dog-Flower-Face
Letter : super-ego
Creed
The Code of Hammurabi
Kinship
A fact
Geranium
A tender thief
Night treats for her
The root : a made-up myth
Fur
Tart
Clothes flying on/day flying open
I died : bronze tree
Dog paw
Blue hour
From me to you, from me to everybody.
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
Essays.
Citation

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