You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

[Dave Monroe]

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.

http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062388674/you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine

In You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, a woman known only as A lives in
an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who
wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That’s My
Partner! A eats mostly popsicles and oranges, watches endless amounts
of television, often just for the commercials, and models herself on a
standard of beauty that exists only in such advertising. YTCHABLM has
been hailed as a resonant exploration of “the essential creepiness of
living in human skin” (Emily Gould), and is already drawing
comparisons to White Noise and The Crying of Lot 49.

http://www.blunderbussmag.com/topography-of-a-novel-you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine/
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