{"product_id":"sweetness-9","title":"Sweetness #9","description":"It's 1973, and David Leveraux has landed his dream job as a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists create the flavors for everything from the cherry in your can of soda to the butter on your popcorn. While testing a new artificial sweetener -- \"Sweetness #9\" -- he notices unusual side-effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a generalized dissatisfaction with life. David tries to blow the whistle, but he swallows it instead. Years later, \u003ci\u003eSweetness #9\u003c\/i\u003e is America's most popular sweetener -- and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son has stopped using verbs, and his daughter suffers from a generalized dissatisfaction with life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and a profound exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, \u003ci\u003eSweetness #9\u003c\/i\u003e questions whether what we eat truly makes us who we are.","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48855976083661,"sku":"9781478932581","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_88630c25-b925-46f6-b1ee-57478ad9b236.jpg?v=1794509579","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/sweetness-9","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}