by Jenny Slate
First published 2019
Jenny Slate moves through a world where rabbits practice French kissing and vaginas perform melancholy ballads. She encounters the ghost of a sea captain while navigating her own divorce. A dog visits her dreams to offer spiritual guidance. She tends young geraniums growing within castle walls and breathes in honeysuckle scents that trigger memories. Death appears alongside birth in her daily experiences. She feels the pull of electromagnetic energy fields and wrestles with what she calls emotional horniness. Each strange encounter becomes a small revelation about love, loss, and the peculiar nature of being human. The haunted house she inhabits mirrors her internal landscape of grief and wonder.
Genres: literary-fiction, contemporary, magical-realism, memoir
Vibes: intimate, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: found-family, magical-realism
Setting: Castle
Period: Contemporary
224 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company