One day Rita went to the shopping mall and mislaid her womb - somewhere she thinks, between Reynolds' Shoes and the lingerie counter of her favourite department store. Soon Rita is relaying her story to the nation and suddenly America is caught up in womb fever!
"A wonderful mixture of insecurity and insanity. Every line of Laurie Foos' new novel is suffused with intelligence, wit and daring. Exhilarating!"-Fay Weldon A fabulist for the twenty-first century, Laurie Foos is back with a whip-smart, refreshingly contemporary take on the nature of beauty, the importance of appearance and the all-too-human ...
The twisted, eccentric characters in this hilarious metaphor-stretching novel are ripped straight from today's tabloids: a man obsessed with Spiderman, whose ir-responsibility has reached such epic proportions that he literally reverts to being a newborn; and a homecoming queen who secretly gives birth in the locker room during halftime, then ...
In this wildly original story, "Foos's third and funniest novel" (New Yorker), a woman gives birth to herself -- a clone -- setting off a bizarre yet entertaining chain of events.
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