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Crafting an elaborate fictional world for his second novel, complete with fabricated news reports and other source material (verified by the editor), Doyle (Revenge of the Teacher's Pet) successfully evokes a moment that will make readers wonder: could this be real? Audrey Mapes is a beautiful Midwestern girl born with no feet and given to eating nonfood items like wood, metal, fabric, or plastic without any adverse effects. Doyle's narrative follows Audrey and her family, including twin siblings Toby and McKenna, as they cope with Audrey's bizarre afflictionher father by means of absence, her mother by pills, her grandmother by religion and her siblings by further eating disorders. Told from McKenna's point of view, the often disturbing story pursues Audrey from unhappy childhood through adulthood success; she earns fame through a traveling freak show and, eventually, arrives in the Michigan city of Kalamazoo for a climactic eating event. While Doyle's novel is relentlessly inventive, his characters are irredeemably unlikable, making it difficult to care about any of the bizarre goings-on. (Jan.)
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"Darrin DoylesThe Girl Who Ate Kalamazoois wildly out there, but its message about family dysfunction is achingly real."DailyCandy.com, Best New Winter Reads Pick
As quirky, funny, and masterful as it is, Darrin Doyles The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo isnt just a book about a girl who ate a cityits about the hunger we all have, for love, for family, and for home."Alix Ohlin, author of The Missing Person and *Babylon and Other Stories*
"Darrin Doyle's The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is about, well, the girl who ate Kalamazoo, but it's about much more than that: family, religion, urban blight and renewal, fame, literature, sister love, and weightlifters. This is why Audrey Mapes is such an incredible character: in creating this girl who can and will eat everything, Darrin Doyle has also created a way to talk about the things that matter most to us. It's an incredible, riotous, beautifully written, sneakily profound novel. I don't know of another book like it; I would be jealous of it if I weren't so busy being amazed by it."Brock Clarke, author of *An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England*
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