Paradise Logic
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'George Saunders meets Ottessa Moshfegh' OBSERVER
'Smart, jarring and wickedly funny' GUARDIAN
‘Here, at last, is someone doing something new’ THE NEW YORK TIMES
'The excavation of heterosexual desire our age deserves' LITHUB
'Imagine Vladimir Nabokov as a manic pixie dream girl, and you’ll be halfway there' GQ
'Top of our reading pile' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE
'Bitterly funny' VOGUE
A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality Kahn, a young woman on a quest to be the greatest girlfriend of all time.
It was decreed from the moment she was bornth. Twenty-three-year-old Reality Kahn would embark on a quest so great, so bold. She would become the greatest girlfriend of all time. She would be a zine maker, an aspiring notary, the greatest waterslide commercial actress on the Eastern Seaboard. She would receive messages from the beyond in the form of advice from the esteemed and ancient ladies’ magazine, Girlfriend Weekly.
When she attends a party at a punk venue known as ‘Paradise’, Reality meets Ariel, her fated boyfriend. Determined to win his affection, she joins a cutting-edge clinical trial created by Dr Zweig Altmann to help her become a perfect girlfriend. She stars in a new commercial. She learns how to become an indelible host. But Reality will also learn that sheer will and determination, and a very open heart, are not always enough to make true love manifest.
At turns laugh-out-loud funny, tragic and jarring, Reality’s quest grows ever more complicated as the men in her life: Ariel, her agent Jethro, and Dr Altmann himself, prove treacherous.
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PARADISE LOGIC is a thrilling breakdown of our obsession with authentic true love, and announces Sophie Kemp as a brilliant and wholly original new voice in fiction.
'Some of the weirdest and funniest prose imaginable' MEGAN NOLAN
‘Totally surreal. I love a book that’s ?funny while being devastating?’ CAT COHEN
'The funniest book of the year and one of the smartest' GARY SHTEYNGART
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In Kemp's energetic debut, a young woman embarks on a quest to become the "best girlfriend of all time." Reality Kahn, a 23-year-old from Upstate New York with a "come-hither attitude," lives in Brooklyn with two roommates. To reach her goal, she must first extricate herself from a situationship with a weed dealer. She then becomes an enthusiastic reader of Girlfriend Weekly, a magazine that advises her to seek attention from men with "boyish charm and searing intellects." She soon meets "sad-eyed" graduate student Ariel, who grudgingly agrees to become her boyfriend in exchange for the right to demand sexual favors from her, often in the cramped apartment he shares with several college friends that doubles as a music venue. Kemp blends a realistic punk rock battle of the sexes with bizarro interludes, as Reality joins a trial for a drug called ZZZZvx ULTRA, which causes her to speak and act submissively to maintain Ariel's approval. The plot is a bit thin, but the inventive conceit yields plenty of humor and incisive commentary. This funhouse portrait of the Brooklyn dating scene feels all too real.
