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