{"product_id":"lifeform-by-jenny-slate-9780349127491","title":"Lifeform","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom actor, comedian, co-creator of \u003ci\u003eMarcel the Shell\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Weirds\u003c\/i\u003e, Jenny Slate presents a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays in \u003ci\u003eLifeform\u003c\/i\u003e, depicting the journey into motherhood as you've never seen it before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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. During that period, she faced a deep, dark loneliness that she had to befriend. We are pleased to report that she did fall in love. In that period, she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on a xylophone. However, she was also rabid with fear of losing this love due to past injury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen, she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague. She was expected to carry on as if everything was normal—but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHerein 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. They take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary old-timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340894290156,"sku":"9780349127491","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4fb83b29f58af5b0e55ef03218fd4e59_36900fe4-fd7b-4798-91ea-576c62d0e8a1.jpg?v=1772190767","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lifeform-by-jenny-slate-9780349127491","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}