Need a hug? Jenny Slate just offered to give you one Thursday at the Brookline Booksmith
Jenny and Ron Slate will be doing a book reading.
Last week, comedian and actress Jenny Slate and her father, poet and essayist Ron Slate, released a book about their Milton home.
Published through the Concord Free Press, About the House is a collection of stories, essays, and poems about the 1898 Colonial home in Milton that Jenny grew up in and her family still owns. The Concord Free Press only distributes a small number of each book they print. Over the course of the next few weeks, they will release about 3,000 copies in total of About this House, which debuted on November 1.
If you don’t have a copy yet (or just want to meet Jenny Slate), Thursday is your chance.
The father-daughter duo will be at the Brookline Booksmith at 7 p.m. Thursday to do a book reading and to answer questions—the first 50 people will even get a free copy.
Along with the free book, you might even get a hug from Jenny herself.
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The book covers the make-believe TV shows Jenny used to write scripts for as a child, Jenny’s feminism and the Slates’ strong female household, the ghosts the family claims to have seen around the home throughout the years, and more.
“You’ll hear [Jenny’s] voice as a stand-up comic,” Ron said. “I can’t compete with Jenny in comedy, so I didn’t even try.”
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