RaveLitReactorComparisons to Gone Girl et al are inevitable but actually unfair, because this is a far better book than any of those. Mejia has an instinct for our dark places and the tight control of a writer like Jim Thompson ... Everything You Want Me to Be is a very good book. It’s a book with a point and a purpose and something to say about young women and small towns and sexuality, and it says what it has to say with none of the hysteria and drama and wall-crashing finales of some of its recent companions.
Alexandra Kleeman
PositiveLitReactor\"The processing in You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine resembles the kind you experience in a dream; a working out of puzzles at a level just below that of awareness ... Ultimately no one goes anywhere in You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. It’s not even clear if the people we meet have a separate identity or if they are all facets of the same personality. This is a journey from A back to A again. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I enjoyed You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and so will you if you approach it with the right expectations. Think about a book which digs beneath the surface to our subliminal panic as we wait for a lover to call, count the hours we’ve wasted on banal entertainment, or gaze at the list of ingredients on the side of a package of Twinkies and you’ll go into this ready. \
Jane Mendelsohn
PositiveLitReactor[Mendelsohn] is utterly shameless about defying everything we reasonably know to be true about the world in order to make her story work. Shameless and also brilliant. Once you’ve absorbed Mendelsohn’s True-Detectiveish attitude to realism, you might also find yourself still loving the writing. Sure, there are moments of frustration but there are also moments of genius.
