You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine - Paperback

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine - Paperback

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by Alexandra Kleeman (Author)

"A powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation." --New York Times Book Review

An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and often funny voice of a new generation.

A woman known only by the letter A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality show called That's My Partner! A eats (or doesn't) the right things, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials--particularly the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert--and models herself on a standard of beauty that only exists in such advertising. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a news-celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up his local Wally Supermarket's entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal.

Meanwhile B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction, and becomes indoctrinated by a new religion spread throughout a web of corporate franchises, which moves her closer to the decoys that populate her television world, but no closer to her true nature.

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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book

A Huffington Post Best Fiction

A Bustle Best Debut

A Lithub Best Book

A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner! A eats (or doesn't eat) the right things, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials, and models herself on a standard of beauty that exists only in such advertising.

Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction.

Alexandra Kleeman's unforgettable debut is a missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person--an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television.--Rivka Galchen

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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book

A Huffington Post Best Fiction

A Bustle Best Debut

A Lithub Best Book

A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner! A eats (or doesn't eat) the right things, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials, and models herself on a standard of beauty that exists only in such advertising.

Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction.

Alexandra Kleeman's unforgettable debut is a missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person--an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: August 11, 2023
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by Alexandra Kleeman (Author)

"A powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation." --New York Times Book Review

An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and often funny voice of a new generation.

A woman known only by the letter A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality show called That's My Partner! A eats (or doesn't) the right things, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials--particularly the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert--and models herself on a standard of beauty that only exists in such advertising. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a news-celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up his local Wally Supermarket's entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal.

Meanwhile B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction, and becomes indoctrinated by a new religion spread throughout a web of corporate franchises, which moves her closer to the decoys that populate her television world, but no closer to her true nature.

Front Jacket

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book

A Huffington Post Best Fiction

A Bustle Best Debut

A Lithub Best Book

A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner! A eats (or doesn't eat) the right things, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials, and models herself on a standard of beauty that exists only in such advertising.

Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction.

Alexandra Kleeman's unforgettable debut is a missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person--an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television.--Rivka Galchen

Back Jacket

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book

A Huffington Post Best Fiction

A Bustle Best Debut

A Lithub Best Book

A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner! A eats (or doesn't eat) the right things, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials, and models herself on a standard of beauty that exists only in such advertising.

Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction.

Alexandra Kleeman's unforgettable debut is a missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person--an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: August 11, 2023

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