You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Kleeman) - Book Reviews

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This is not a breezy summer read, but it’s cerebral, sharp, funny - and worth the ride.
New York Post


A satirical and searing critique of modern-day womanhood.
Chicago Tribune


Kleeman serves up a clever satire of our culture’s ever intensifying obsession with health, diet, and body image
Los Angeles Magazine.


The smartest, strangest novel I’ve read in a while (Staff Pick).
Paris Review


This debut novel by future superstar Alexandra Kleeman will be the thing to be seen reading this summer. Pick it up if you want to up your summer cool factor . . . . .Very funny, perfectly weird, a hyperintelligent commentary on a culture obsessed with you and fame.
Vanity Fair


Alexandra Kleeman has written Fight Club for girls.
Vogue.com


Excellent.... Sprinkled with detailed summaries of invented advertisements, the book describes a consumer landscape just on the far side of plausible. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is a story about realizing you’re hungry and trying to find out what for.
Slate


Her darkly satirical debut lays bare the ravages of advertising-fueled culture and consumerism, through a purposefully distorted version of our reality. Fans of DeLillo, Pynchon and Shteyngart are advised to take note.
Huffington Post


Alexandra Kleeman’s brilliant debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine is at once eerie and strange and beautiful, an incisive commentary on contemporary culture and womanhood.
Buzzfeed


Don’t be fooled by the sassy title-the cravings that lurk beneath the surface in this completely original debut will haunt what a body means to you indefinitely.
Marie Claire


(Starred review.) [A] fever dream of modern alienation.... It's a testament to Kleeman's ability that the text itself blurs and begins to run together.... This is a challenging novel, but undoubtedly one with something to say. One wonders what Kleeman will come up with next.
Publishers Weekly


Absurdist observations evoke masters like DeLillo and Pynchon, as well as the “hysterical realism” of Ben Marcus and Tom Perrotta, bringing a refreshingly feminist frame to the postmodern conversation. While ambitious in scope and structure, sharp humor and brisk storytelling ground the existential angst in Kleeman’s page-turning, entertaining performance.
Booklist


"I had hoped happiness would be warmer, cozier, more enveloping. More exciting, like one of the things that happen on TV to TV...." [T]here's writing just like that on nearly every page. At the narrative level, though, this novel barely moves.... Existential paralysis is a great subject for short fiction but a more difficult one for a novel.
Kirkus Reviews