In My Remaining Years, Jean Grae
In My Remaining Years, Jean Grae
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In My Remaining Years

Author: Jean Grae

Narrator: Jean Grae

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/18/2025

Synopsis

In My Remaining Years offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of Jean's inner monologue, Dr. Umentary, and New York City with original music composed for this listening experience. Sit back and savor!

This collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays is written and read by by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae.

In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those of us still trying to figure it out in our forties. These laugh-out-loud essays cover everything from aging gracefully (with and without botox), what happens when you look for community and almost start a cult, befriending childhood demons (Hi Mumm-ra!), gender fluidity in middle age, the cost of being too fabulous, and the various gymnastics we do to avoid becoming our parents, taking us from her childhood in 1980s New York City to present-day Baltimore. In this audiobook, Jean captures magic in a bottle, distilling the feeling of hanging out with your smartest, funniest, and most brutally honest best friend.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

About Jean Grae

Jean Grae is a multidisciplinary artist, humorist, and former rapper with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She’s collaborated with influential musicians including The Roots, and Robert Glasper and her prolific body of work is featured at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2019, the Public Theater commissioned her one-person show, Jeanius, which played for a limited time to sold-out audiences in New York City. She currently resides in Baltimore with her shared-custody cat, Littles. In My Remaining Years is her first book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brooklyn on March 22, 2025

Non-binary, I don’t need a man etc etc. Very disappointing I was looking forward to some hip hop stories......more

Goodreads review by Mf_ht on March 29, 2025

As predicted, I LOVED everything about this book. Jean knocked it out of the park in so many ways. One of my favorite humans since over a decade ago, I have vowed to support Jean in any way I can - purchasing and downloading all of the albums I could get my greedy little hands on. (It’s not Cookies......more

Goodreads review by Kim on March 14, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. I requested this book only knowing Jean Grae as a friend of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, so my experience with them is minimal at best. I’m still so pleased I read this. The tone is light and casual and humoro......more

Goodreads review by Haerlee on March 13, 2025

A collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those of us st......more

Goodreads review by Joanna on March 26, 2025

This book is so many things that I love - if you enjoy humor, darkness, honesty and joy - please read. And if you grew up in NYC in the 80s/90s, so many of Jean’s words are an ode to being a New Yorker, no matter where you now live. After every chapter I physically hug this book. Jean has always bee......more

Quotes

"A fierce, funny book that embraces life and all its imperfections with open arms." —Kirkus

“I have often considered how much better society would be if a small version of Jean Grae could live on every bookshelf. All of my experiments in this field have ended in international sanctions and house fires. But as usual, Jean had a better idea and wrote this book. The portable Jean now exists, and you must buy it!”
—John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland

“As a proud day-one fan, I have always considered Jean to be one of my favorite creatives in hip-hop, turning out lyrics that sharpen your sense of the perfect imperfections of life. I couldn’t be happier to see her pivot into authorship. Personal history, the mystery of the self, the crazed whirl of the crazy modern world—all of it gets the Jean Grae treatment in these sledgehammer essays, which hold your hand while they invade your head.”
—Questlove

“This haphazard world is so very lucky Jean Grae wrote a book. A hall of myriad doorways into a mind and life like no other—so deep, so funny, so genius. If you’ve ever felt stuck articulating the unrelenting chaos of existing, Jean has got you covered and then some.”
—Aparna Nancherla, actress, comedian, and author of Unreliable Narrator

 “I’m in awe of the many talents of Jean Grae. What a pleasure it is to discover that, as I’d expected, Jean is excellent at writing books, too.”
—Maris Kreizman, author of I Want To Burn This Place Down

“Jean Grae is relentless—in her pursuit of life, of honesty, of the beauty and brutality of being human, and all the strange and seductive things between. She will make you cry and marvel in the same breath, leave you gasping with laughter, and make you vow to never waste another moment of your own remaining years on some petty-ass bullshit.”
—Aisha Tyler, actress, director, and New York Times bestselling author of Self-Inflicted Wounds

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