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It's 1973, and David Leveraux has got his goal job as a Flavorist-in-Training, employed in the secretive industry where chemists create the tastes for from the cherry in your can of soda pop to the butter on your popcorn. While testing a fresh artificial sweetener - Sweetness #9 - he notices different side-effects in the lab rats and monkeys: stress and anxiety, fatness, mutism, and a generalized dissatisfaction with life. David will try to blow the whistle, but he swallows it instead. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener - and David's family is changing. His wife is getting weight, his son has discontinued using verbs, and his princess suffers from a generalized dissatisfaction with life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's inability to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive book that reaches once a comic satire, a family report, and a deep exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we consume truly makes us who our company is.
