By Stephan Eirik Clark<\/a><\/br>\r\n[myrating]\r\n<\/div>
\nFast Food Nation meets The Corrections in the brilliant literary debut T.C. Boyle calls “funny and moving.”<\/p>\nDavid Leveraux is an Apprentice Flavor Chemist at one of the world’s leading flavor production houses. While testing Sweetness #9, he notices that the artificial sweetener causes unsettling side-effects in laboratory rats and monkeys. But with his career and family at risk, David keeps his suspicions to himself.<\/p>\n
Years later, Sweetness #9 is America’s most popular sweetener–and David’s family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his daughter is depressed, and his son has stopped using verbs. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David’s failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition?<\/p>\n
An exciting literary debut, SWEETNESS #9 is a darkly comic, wildly imaginative investigation of whether what we eat makes us who we are.<\/p>\n
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Fast Food Nation meets The Corrections in the brilliant literary debut T.C. Boyle calls “funny and moving.”<\/p>\n
David Leveraux is an Apprentice Flavor Chemist at one of the world’s leading flavor production houses. While testing Sweetness #9, he notices that the artificial sweetener causes unsettling side-effects in laboratory rats and monkeys. But with his career and family at risk, David keeps his suspicions to himself.<\/p>\n
Years later, Sweetness #9 is America’s most popular sweetener–and David’s family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his daughter is depressed, and his son has stopped using verbs. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David’s failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition?<\/p>\n Read More ...<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}