Sweetness #9: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

‘Funny and moving. After this, nothing will ever flavor the same once again.’–T. C. Boyle

It’s 1973, and David Leveraux offers landed his dream job being a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists produce the tastes for everything from the cherry within your can of soda pop towards the butter on your own popcorn. While screening a fresh artificial sweetener–‘Sweetness #9’–he notices uncommon side-effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: stress and anxiety, weight problems, mutism, and a generalized about Sweetness #9: A Book dissatisfaction with lifestyle. David attempts to blow the whistle, but he swallows it instead. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America’s most well-known sweetener–and David’s family can be changing. His wife is gaining excess weight, his son provides halted using verbs, and his little girl suffers from a generalized dissatisfaction with existence. Is normally Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David’s failing to avoid it? Or are these simply symptoms of the American condition? David’s search for a remedy unfolds with this expansive novel that is simultaneously a comic satire, a family story, and a serious exploration of our deepest ethnic anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 queries whether what we consume truly makes us who we are.