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EPISODE · Oct 22, 2024 · 3 MIN

Lifeform by Jenny Slate

from Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Murray Shields

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifeform Author: Jenny Slate Narrator: Vanessa Bayer, Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Will Forte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Comedian and New York Times bestseller Jenny Slate’s wild, hilarious, genre-bending essays read in her singular voice depict life and motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. Featuring narration from friends Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte (“Schumacher 2”), and George Saunders (“The Therapist”).   What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal—but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases—Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing—through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifeform Author: Jenny Slate Narrator: Vanessa Bayer, Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Will Forte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Comedian and New York Times bestseller Jenny Slate’s wild, hilarious, genre-bending essays read in her singular voice depict life and motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. Featuring narration from friends Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte (“Schumacher 2”), and George Saunders (“The Therapist”).   What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal—but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases—Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing—through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifeform Author: Jenny Slate Narrator: Vanessa Bayer, Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Will Forte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58...

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