You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Kleeman) - Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions
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Also, consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine:

1. What is the significance of the book's title, "You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine"?

2. Talk about this novel as social commentary. What aspects of contemporary culture does it comment on? What does it suggest about the quality of our lives and how our aspirations are shaped?

3. The novel has been described as existential, difficult, disorienting, even alienating. Is the book primarily intellectual? Or does it resonate with you on a personal level? If so, what parts in particular?

4. How would you describe A and B and C? Why are they identified as such: why might the author have used letters rather than names for her characters? Do you see any aspect of yourself (or anyone you know) in A, B, or C?

5. Talk about A's fascination with Kandy Kat, both literally (as a plot element in the story) and metaphorically (what it might signify symbolically).

6. Why does A turn to the Church of the Conjoined Eaters? What practices of society does the church satirize?

7. Overall, what does the book suggest about the female body and it's "function" in society? Do you agree with A's view that "A woman’s body never really belongs to herself"?

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