One Pill Makes You Smaller

Eleven-year-old Alice Duncan has a problem: her body is, literally, growing up too fast. Gawky, innocent, and tongue-tied, Alice is taller than her teachers, with long, long legs and a voluptuous chest she refers to it as The Breasts.

One Pill Makes You Smaller brings to life the surreal experience of being a girl--stuck in a woman's body. Dierbeck shoots down the rabbit hole of 1970s misbehavior, combining her modern tale with the fantastic universe of Alice in Wonderland, set in the black-lit, drug-infested art world of Andy Warhol's Manhattan. When Alice is shipped off to a freethinking art camp in North Carolina, she encounters J.D., a sweet-talking adult man who engages her in a dangerous flirtation. This deliciously pop, self-assured debut is an inspired paean to lost innocence.

Author: Lisa Dierbeck
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.24w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780312422868

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 111937 / One Pill Makes You Smaller


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/07/2004 pg. 30

About the Author

Lisa Dierbeck lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she is a contributor to Barron's and The New York Times Book Review. One Pill Makes You Smaller is her debut novel.

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