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One Pill Makes You Smaller

“One Pill Makes You Smaller is a mordantly funny,
intelligent and accurate look at one girl’s experience
growing up. Alice’s experiences are miserable, harrowing,
illuminating, and wonderful.”
–- Mary Gaitskill, author of Veronica

Eleven-year-old Alice Duncan has a problem: growing at a breathtaking pace, her body
has taken on a mysterious life of its own. Heads turn whenever Alice leaves the house.
Men are magnetized by the two huge, round globes that have sprouted from her chest.
They force passersby to stare, not at Alice, but at The Breasts. Full-figured and
long-legged, Alice towers over her teachers. In school, with kids her own age,
she is ridiculed. They call her Stacked. They call her Gigantor. They make noises
behind her back. But on the sidewalks of Manhattan, Alice is popular. Her aunt’s
boyfriend, Rabbit, says she’s gorgeous. Even Crash Omaha, a rock star, tears off
his motorcycle boots and jumps into her shower stall. When Alice is shipped off to
the Balthus Institute, an exclusive art school in the mountains, she throws herself
headlong into the gritty, seductive glamour of the 70s art world. There, she meets a
charismatic man named J.D. He is amoral, charming – and, possibly, an outlaw.
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