One Pill Makes You Smaller: A Novel

Eleven-year-old Alice Duncan has a problem: her body is literally growing up too fast. Gawky innocent and tongue-tied Alice is taller than her teachers with long long legs and a voluptuous chest she refers to it as The Breasts. . One Pill Makes You Smaller brings to life the surreal experience of being a girl--stuck in a womans body. Dierbeck shoots down the rabbit hole of 1970s misbehavior combining her modern tale with the fantastic universe of Alice in Wonderland set in the black-lit drug-infested art world of Andy Warhols Manhattan. When Alice is shipped off to a freethinking art camp in North Carolina she encounters J.D. a sweet-talking adult man who engages her in a dangerous flirtation. This deliciously pop self-assured debut is an inspired paean to lost innocence.