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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.
"You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine" was much more literary than I expected it to be. From the review I'd read, I had thought it would be a fairly silly, action-oriented sort-of-scifi. Instead it is very much inside the narrator's head, which is not always a fun place to be. Kleeman does an amazing job of not only describing the narrator's weird, disoriented mental state, but of temporarily putting the reader in that state. There's some social commentary and some goofiness, but mainly it seems to be about the experience of unraveling. The plot gets strange towards the end, but not as strange as I had expected it to. Without giving too much away, I will say that I think the novel is great for where it -doesn't- go as much as for where it does go. Not as light a read as one might think, very thought-provoking. I did enjoy it.