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Sweetness #9, a novel, Stephan Eirik Clark

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Sweetness #9

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Stephan Eirik Clark

a novel

"It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a general dissatisfaction with life. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener--and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son has stopped using verbs, and his daughter is generally dissatsified with her life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the human condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and an exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat makes us truly who we are"--, Provided by publisher

Cover -- Title Page -- Welcome -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Part One: Animal Testing (Summer 1973) -- Part Two: Just Filling Orders (July 1998) -- Part Three: Black Cherry Monday (August-September 1998) -- Part Four: A Single Packet of Sweetness #9 (September 1998) -- Part Five: Seven Days in November (November 1998) -- Day 1: Friday -- Day 2: Saturday -- Day 3: Sunday -- Day 4: Monday -- Day 5: Tuesday -- Day 6: Wednesday -- Day  7: Thursday -- Part Six: Small-Batch Organic Sauerkraut (1998-2012) -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Praise for "Sweetness #9 -- Reading Group Guide -- A conversation with Stephan Eirik Clark -- Questions and topics for discussion -- Newsletters -- Table of Contents -- Copyright

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