- Alexandra Kleeman

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

By Alexandra Kleeman

‘The next voice of a generation’ Elle

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

A young woman called A lives with a young woman called B. B is becoming more and more like A: wearing her clothes, using her make-up. If A’s boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same is A, where does that leave A?

‘Brilliant. A contemporary take on Single White Female as scripted by Miranda July, shot through with elements of a distinctly Atwoodian dystopia’ Observer

‘A disturbing, super-smart mystery’ Daily Mail

‘As good a debut as I’ve ever read’ Zadie Smith

Author: Alexandra Kleeman
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10 Aug 2017
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-0-00-821087-8
Alexandra Kleeman’s fiction has been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, Guernica and Gulf Coast, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harpers, Tin House, n+1, and the Guardian. She is the author of a story collection called Intimations, and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is her first novel. She lives in New York City.

”'An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is as good a debut as I've ever read” - Zadie Smith

”'A disturbing, super-smart mystery” - Daily Mail

”'Strange, entertaining … a clever satire on the naval-gazing horrors of contemporary life” - Financial Times

”'Weird and wonderful” - Metro

”'Kleeman tackles zeitgeist female themes of wellness, orthorexia and individualism with a sharp and original voice. Most potent is her uncanny fascination with the body, which leaves you feeling totally off-kilter with your own” - Sunday Times

”'Absurd and brilliant … exalts in inventive, visceral language” - Daily Telegraph

”'Alexandra Kleeman’s debut tackles gender dynamics; advertising; our relationship with food, and ponders what it means to be a woman living in a world obsessed with how the female body looks” - Psychologies

”'Destined to be one of the most talked about books this year” - Reader’s Digest

”'Everyone knows we inhabit a woozy landscape of flatness, repetition and irregular bodies, and here at last is its hyper-contemporary description. Alexandra Kleeman possesses a new tone - comical, malignant and addictive” - Adam Thirlwell

”'Thomas Pynchon. David Foster Wallace. Don de Lillo. Haruki Murakami … No one seems to have considered what a feminine equivalent might be. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine provides the answer” - Emerald Street

”'The next voice of a generation” - Elle