Honey, I Killed the Cats
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From bestselling, internationally acclaimed author Dorota Masłowska comes a hilarious and devastating satire of consumer culture. Set in a bizarro, all-too-real imaginarium of American pop culture, Honey, I Killed the Cats introduces us to two independent young women struggling to live the lives that television and glossy magazines have promised them. In a collision of street slang and mass-media sloganeering, Masłowska's electrifying prose drives a propulsive story about spiritual longing in a dispirited world.
Masłowska’s novel examines the ways we attempt to exist and find meaning in lives defined by what we buy. In this warped world saturated by advertising and materialism, where everything can be bought, from personality and physical traits to religion and self-fulfillment, Joanne and Farah, two very different women form a friendship both bonded in and ultimately destroyed by the manipulations of consumer culture.
Joanne has everything the commercials say you should want—confidence, a carefree life, happiness to excess. Farah is a self-loathing, envious, germophobic malcontent. Through a shared metaphysical dream experience that spills over into their increasingly troubled day-to-day lives, these best friends find themselves consumed by their equal-and-opposite obsessions.
Widely regarded as Polish literary sensation Masłowska’s best novel yet, Honey, I Killed the Cats is a powerfully emotional, hilariously grotesque satire of Western consumer culture and the trends that go along with it.
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Mas owska (Snow White and Russian Red) bitingly sends up millennial culture in this story about two young women and their trials and tribulations, all set in an unnamed city overflowing with excess and pop culture references. Joanne (or Jo) and Farah (but call her Fah) are best friends who have recently had a wedge driven between them by Jo's new relationship with a kitchen and bath salesman with a Hungarian Studies degree. Jo, whose style is described as "comfortable yet ugly, with a hint of extravagance," is smitten with the Hungarianist, spending more and more time with him. Fah, a bitter hypochondriac, takes a deep dislike to the Hungarianist, mostly out of spite and jealousy. Adrift from her only friend, and increasingly unhinged by a series of nonsensical but violent dreams, Fah takes Jo's offhand suggestion to check out an art show, where she meets Gosza (called Go), a wild child heiress in the midst of a nasty breakup with a boyfriend who wants to be polyamorous. Fah's obsessiveness is transferred onto Go, but the latter's casual carelessness sends both her and Fah over the edge, in different ways. Fah's fevered dream sequences which involve bloody pajama pants, mermaids who have seen better days, and a reoccurring copy of the magazine Yogalife are highlights. Slim and ferocious, Mas owska's novel is a wild trip from beginning to end.
