{"product_id":"you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine-a-novel-isbn-9780062388674","title":"You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of \u003cem\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCity of Glass\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003cem\u003eThat’s My Partner!\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003cem\u003eThat's My Partner!\u003c\/em\u003e A eats mostly popsicles and oranges, 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 exists only in such advertising. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a local celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up a Wally's Supermarket's entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, 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. Maybe something like what's gotten into her neighbors across the street, the family who's begun \"ghosting\" themselves beneath white sheets and whose garage door features a strange scrawl of graffiti: he who sits next to me, may we eat as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intelligent and madly entertaining novel reminiscent of \u003cem\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCity of Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, 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; and, above all, a wholly singular vision of modern womanhood by a frightening, \"stunning\" (\u003cem\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/em\u003e), and often very funny voice of a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Alexandra Kleeman is one of the sharpest and smartest young writers I’ve read - ambitious, promising, brilliant. She can be strange and very funny as well, and when I read her work I have the strong suspicion that I’m reading the literature of the future.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Marcus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My strong preference would be to eat this book and be reconstituted by its intelligence. But with deep gratitude still I will settle for just getting to read this ingenious novel which has eaten up our whole culture…and transubstantiated it into wry, brilliant, undeniable literary truth.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRivka Galchen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Captivating and full of gorgeous perversity,  the insights and wit of \u003ci\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e dissolved almost everything I thought I knew about being a body.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine Lacey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We live in a reality so sick and absurd already that satire has a hard time one-upping it, but Kleeman has done so in a way that is at once moving, haunting, hilarious, and surpassingly strange. It’s a novel about starvation that I read with voracious hunger.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kleeman’s debut novel is a fever dream of modern alienation  .. .  . Kleeman’s story is not really like any other, but could be described as a blend of the nightmarish disassociation of DeLillo’s \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e and the phantasmagoria of Bergman’s \u003ci\u003ePersona\u003c\/i\u003e.... One wonders what Kleeman will come up with next.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kleeman plays with an idea of empathy so extreme that it collapses on itself: What if there is no essential difference between humans worth bridging? The result might be an insatiable hunger for something that reminds us of our distinctness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Funny yet chilling...might make you see the mundane routines of everyday life a little differently.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Writing in the same tradition as writers like DeLillo and Pynchon, writers who can take the world and shift it so that it to reveal all of its innate strangeness, Kleeman has crafted a darkly funny and deep cutting novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAskMen.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At once eerie and strange and beautiful, Alexandra Kleeman’s brilliant debut novel \u003ci\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e immediately distinguishes itself with its originality and unique voice.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is not a breezy summer read, but it’s cerebral, sharp, funny—and worth the ride.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Absurdist observations evoke masters like DeLillo and Pynchon, as well as the “hysterical realism” of Ben Marcus and Tom Perrotta, bringing a refreshingly feminist frame to the postmodern conversation. While ambitious in scope and structure, sharp humor and brisk storytelling ground the existential angst in Kleeman’s page-turning, entertaining performance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alexandra Kleeman has written \u003cem\u003eFight Club\u003c\/em\u003e for girls.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The symbols of modern anomie in this novel are familiar (soulless supermarkets, insane mass entertainments, etc.), but Ms. Kleeman has a singular, off-kilter style, and a distinct vision of the absurd horrors that can come with being trapped in a body.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don’t be fooled by the sassy title-the cravings that lurk beneath the surface in this completely original debut will haunt what a body means to you indefinitely.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Excellent . . . Sprinkled with detailed summaries of invented advertisements, the book describes a consumer landscape just on the far side of plausible. \u003cem\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about realizing you’re hungry and trying to find out what for.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This debut novel by future superstar Alexandra Kleeman will be the thing to be seen reading this summer. Pick it up if you want to up your summer cool factor . . . . .Very funny, perfectly weird, a hyperintelligent commentary on a culture obsessed with you and fame.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A clever satire of our culture’s ever intensifying obsession with health, diet, and body image.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel is brilliant, incisive, and exactly how to send off summer with a bang. Written masterfully, \u003ci\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \u003c\/i\u003e is a biting cultural indictment on what we see, think, do, and eat — especially while being a woman.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At once eerie and strange and beautiful, an incisive commentary on contemporary culture and womanhood.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her darkly satirical debut lays bare the ravages of advertising-fueled culture and consumerism, through a purposefully distorted version of our reality. Fans of DeLillo, Pynchon and Shteyngart are advised to take note.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kleeman is, clearly, writing in a postmodernist mode. 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A challenging novel, but undoubtedly one with something to say.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As incisive about our dark cultural obsessions as she is compassionate towards the individuals who fall prey to them, Alexandra Kleeman is a terrifying and elegant talent you will not soon forget.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathleen Alcott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brilliant and strange portrait of dystopian consumption--of food, television, and one another--YTCHABLM would be purely unsettling if it weren’t also so gorgeously written and funny. 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