A smart and stylish debut novel that is intoxicating and hallucinatory, full of meditations on food, beauty, relationships, TV and above all, the human body. A woman known as A lives with her friend B, and spends unhappy afternoons with her boyfriend, C. Each hungers to be like the other: B wants to be like A; A wishes she could be as ordinary as C and C wishes they could be stars of reality TV. Desperate for definition and meaning, A sets off on a journey that takes her into the heart of an all-too-familiar consumerist culture and beyond.
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A smart and stylish debut novel that is intoxicating and hallucinatory, full of meditations on food, beauty, relationships, TV and above all, the human body. A woman known as A lives with her friend B, and spends unhappy afternoons with her boyfriend, C. Each hungers to be like the other: B wants to be like A; A wishes she could be as ordinary as C and C wishes they could be stars of reality TV. Desperate for definition and meaning, A sets off on a journey that takes her into the heart of an all-too-familiar consumerist culture and beyond.