You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine - Tapa dura

"The smartest, strangest novel I've read in a while."--Paris Review, Staff Pick

"A clever satire of our culture's ever intensifying obsession with health, diet, and body image."--Los Angeles Magazine

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

"The symbols of modern anomie in this novel are familiar (soulless supermarkets, insane mass entertainments, etc.), but Ms. Kleeman has a singular, off-kilter style, and a distinct vision of the absurd horrors that can come with being trapped in a body."--New York Times

"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

"Kleeman is, clearly, writing in a postmodernist mode. Her ambition is huge, and, at the level of the sentence, she's amazing."--Kirkus Reviews

"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

"My strong preference would be to eat this book and be reconstituted by its intelligence. But with deep gratitude still I will settle for just getting to read this ingenious novel which has eaten up our whole culture...and transubstantiated it into wry, brilliant, undeniable literary truth."--Rivka Galchen

"Alexandra Kleeman is one of the sharpest and smartest young writers I've read - ambitious, promising, brilliant. She can be strange and very funny as well, and when I read her work I have the strong suspicion that I'm reading the literature of the future."--Ben Marcus