Description: "The Baby Merchantis a thriller about the horrors of pregnancy that can stand beside Levin'sRosemary's Babyand Atwood'sThe Handmaid's Tale. Kit Reed supposes a near future in which children have replaced real estate as the next hot commodity. It's one helluva hell-on-earth."--Thomas M. Disch "Kit Reed's work freaks me out.The Baby Merchantis whip-smart and thoughtful, nervy and nervewracking, and it keeps me up until late, wanting to know how it turns out and begging to know how she does it. Then, in the morning, I blearily wander the streets, forcing total strangers to read her so they can be freaked out too. Don't make me come to your town."--Daniel Handler "Now I know why we emerged from the caves into the light, discovered the wheel, and lit the first fires: to become a species that would produce Kit Reed; so that Ms. Reed would writeThe Baby Merchant. What a long, wearying, but worthwhile trip it has been."--Harlan Ellison "A smart, twisty thriller in a future far too easy to imagine. The merchant himself, Kit Reed's Tom Starbird, is the deep, dark center of the book and, like Highsmith's Tom Ripley, is someone I will remember for a long, long time."--Karen Joy Fowler, author ofThe Jane Austen Book ClubonThe Baby Merchant "A heart-felt, heart-stopping novel ripped from tomorrow's headlines,The Baby Merchantexplodes our national obsessions with celebrity, children, and cold hard cash."--Elizabeth Hand, author ofMortal Love Praise forThinner Than Thou: "A clever what-if, Reed's tale is provocative as well as amusing."--People "'Super-Size Me' meets 'Soylent Green.'"--Entertainment Weekly "Health clubs replace houses of worship in Kit Reed's not-so-science-fiction novelThinner Than Thou."--Vanity Fair "Reed has a singular gift for this kind of Swiftian satire, and her book is as funny as it is outraged."--San Francisco Chronicle "A zesty send-up of our contemporary obsession with attaining eternally svelte self-images. A feast of entertaining food for thought."--The Associated Press "Reed's visionary tale is brilliant."--Booklist "Stinging and mordantly witty satire."--Publishers Weekly(starred review) "A timely, witty page-turner which tells us the truth about ourselves and our society while making us laugh aloud. Reed remains one of the most cheerful and accurate of modern social observers."--Michael Moorcock

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