{"product_id":"you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine-9780062388681","title":"You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKleeman, Alexandra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAlexandra Kleeman has written for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review, Zoetrope, Tin House, VOGUE\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003en+1\u003c\/em\u003e. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has received grants and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She was the 2016 winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, and lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625505100050,"sku":"9780062388681","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1095ed5f-6a8a-49ec-8e2d-5ee0728dcbc3.jpg?v=1732630752","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine-9780062388681","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}