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Praise:

“There is a kind of ruthless, terrible humor that can provoke utterly helpless laughter, and that, I think, would be Jack Pendarvis’ specialty…[and] beneath the laughs, we see his soft spot for the struggling loser, his keen eye for the Southern eccentric.” — Times-Picayune

“There are not many truly funny writers in the world—writers who can make you laugh out loud, make you do that repetitive, mounting-laughter thing, so that you finally have to put the book down and try to catch your breath, while going ‘Oh boy, wow, Oh God. Jeez.’ Jack Pendarvis is, for me, one such writer…” — George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and In Persuasion Nation

Your Body Is Changing

Reader's Choice Simultaneous Hard Cover and Paperback Release

By Jack Pendarvis

May 31, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-95692-234-1 
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 250
Price: $23.00 Rights: World; Audio; Performance


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About the Book

Fresh new hilarity from the author of The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure.

Glittering with mischief and perversity, Pushcart Prize–winner Jack Pendarvis’s latest collection introduces readers to a world of dreamers poised on the brink of all sorts of disaster — a world only a wink and a nod away from our own.

In the title novella a fundamentalist teenager must single-handedly confront the challenges of a spiritual quest complicated by secular humanists, an apocalyptic folk artist, and his own hormones. The other stories deal poignantly with — among other things — a young millionaire pretending to be a detective, the good folks who invented the diarrhea-inducing chewing gum, and a tollbooth operator who becomes an impromptu drug mule.

Underlying each comedic gem and neurotic twist is an intelligence and empathy rarely found in modern satire. Your Body Is Changing will invite you in with its zany humor and indict you with its moving truths.

Reader's Choice Simultaneous Paperback Release
ISBN: 978-1-59692-191-7
U.S.: $13.00

About the Author

Jack Pendarvis lives in Atlanta. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, The Believer and the Oxford American, and he is a contributing editor to Paste Magazine. His stories have been anthologized in the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology and elsewhere. Your Body Is Changing is his second book."

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