You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

<p><strong>A powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies artfully and elegantly articulated by one of the young wise women of our generation. --<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of <em>The Crying of Lot 49 </em> <em>White Noise</em> and <em>City of Glass</em> 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.</strong></p><p>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 <em>That's My Partner!</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p>