You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062388674)

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.

Author: Alexandra Kleeman
ISBN-10: 0062388673
ISBN-13: 9780062388674
Publisher: Harper
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2015
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist
Award: Bard Fiction Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/11/2015
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015
New York Times Book Review 09/06/2015 pg. 19
Shelf Awareness 09/04/2015
New York Times Book Review 09/13/2015 pg. 30