In this zany send-up of our health-conscious culture, Janey is given an ultimatum from her business partner to lose weight or lose her role as CEO of a couture wedding dress company. Susan Bennett’s comedic and heartfelt narration is sure to delight listeners. Janey eschews her workaholic life for a world in which produce has a PR agent and fitness trends like consuming clay, Free the Nipple yoga, and secret dance routines punctuated by screams run rampant. Bennett brings all the characters to life with well-differentiated voices—from Janey’s subtle Southern tones to her cousin’s sugary folksy accent. Add a shaman’s airy American tones and a fitness guru whose accent is a mystery, blending, as it does, Midwest tones with an Irish lilt, and you’ve got a cornucopia of quirky characters and a fun and funny listen. A.L.C. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
Fitness Junkie: A Novel
Narrated by Susan Bennett, Jo Piazza
Lucy SykesUnabridged — 9 hours, 29 minutes
Fitness Junkie: A Novel
Narrated by Susan Bennett, Jo Piazza
Lucy SykesUnabridged — 9 hours, 29 minutes
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Overview
From the bestselling authors of The Knockoff, an outrageously funny novel about one woman's attempt-through clay diets, naked yoga, green juice, and cultish workout classes-to win back her career, save her best friend, and lose thirty pounds.
When Janey Sweet, CEO of a couture wedding dress company, is photographed in the front row of a fashion show eating a bruffin-the delicious lovechild of a brioche and a muffin-her best friend and business partner, Beau, gives her an ultimatum: Lose thirty pounds or lose your job. Sure, Janey has gained some weight since her divorce, and no, her beautifully cut trousers don't fit like they used to, so Janey throws herself headlong into the world of the fitness revolution, signing up for a shockingly expensive workout pass, baring it all for Free the Nipple yoga, sweating through boot camp classes run by Sri Lankan militants and spinning to the screams of a Lycra-clad instructor with rage issues. At a juice shop she meets Jacob, a cute young guy who takes her dumpster-diving outside Whole Foods on their first date. At a shaman's tea ceremony she meets Hugh, a silver fox who holds her hand through an ayahuasca hallucination And at a secret exercise studio Janey meets Sara Strong, the wildly popular workout guru whose special dance routine has starlets and wealthy women flocking to her for results that seem too good to be true. As Janey eschews delicious carbs, pays thousands of dollars to charlatans, and is harassed by her very own fitness bracelet, she can't help but wonder: Did she really need to lose weight in the first place? A hilarious send-up of the health and wellness industry, Fitness Junkie is a glorious romp through the absurd landscape of our weight-obsessed culture.
Editorial Reviews
"There are no funnier, wittier people in all the land than Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza. The writers of The Knockoff are here with their second novel about one woman’s attempt to basically fix her entire life, which she is positive will happen by losing 30 pounds. Think naked yoga. Think gross green juices. Think crazy cycling classes. Yes, please!" —Ruthie Friedlander, InStyle
"With the same delicious brand of satire that Sykes and Piazza became known for in The Knockoff, Janey falls down the rabbit hole of fitness trends, skinny mommy blogs, and juice cleanses in search of a weight-loss savior… You’ll breeze through this one like you would a Saturday spin class with the most fabulous playlist and the promise of brunch cocktails after."
—Kirkus
"I laughed out loud reading Fitness Junkie, which serves a heaping helping of hilarious satire, profiling the step-counting, calorie-obsessed New Yorkers who fill the cronut-shaped holes in their souls with workouts."
—Jill Kargman, creator and star of Odd Mom Out
"Fitness Junkie is a deliciously fun romp through the bizarre and cult-like workouts of the superrich, from naked yoga to clay diets to private island wellness retreats. Funny, frothy and delicious."
—Jane Green, author of Falling
"I was thrown into the diet and exercising regimen of the 0.01% and was barely able to exhale. Fitness Junkie moves furiously through the torturous extremes women subject themselves to, all in the name of pleasing someone else. Sykes and Piazza work their magic through the eyes of a woman more like yourself. Read this and you will never eat cronuts with a side of guilt again."
—Maureen Sherry, author of Opening Belle
05/15/2017
The duo who brought us The Knockoff now tackle the fitness world. Threatened with losing her job if she doesn't shed 30 pounds, couture wedding dress company CEO Janey Sweet embarks on a hilarious weight-loss quest that involves Free the Nipple yoga, dumpster diving on a first date, and other shenanigans.
In this zany send-up of our health-conscious culture, Janey is given an ultimatum from her business partner to lose weight or lose her role as CEO of a couture wedding dress company. Susan Bennett’s comedic and heartfelt narration is sure to delight listeners. Janey eschews her workaholic life for a world in which produce has a PR agent and fitness trends like consuming clay, Free the Nipple yoga, and secret dance routines punctuated by screams run rampant. Bennett brings all the characters to life with well-differentiated voices—from Janey’s subtle Southern tones to her cousin’s sugary folksy accent. Add a shaman’s airy American tones and a fitness guru whose accent is a mystery, blending, as it does, Midwest tones with an Irish lilt, and you’ve got a cornucopia of quirky characters and a fun and funny listen. A.L.C. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
2017-05-15
Unofficial rule of the New York fashion industry: if you must buy the bruffin, you absolutely cannot be seen eating said bruffin.Janey Sweet, co-founder of a wedding-dress company called B, doesn't realize she's committing a crime until B designer and her best friend, Beau, shoves a tabloid with a picture of her eating a bruffin ("the love child of a brioche and a muffin") in her face and ends their breakfast conversation by calling her the "f" word—fat—which is unacceptable according to their business arrangement formed decades ago. Since B wedding dresses are notorious for not going above a size 4, Janey is out until she drops her bruffin habit and 30 pounds along with it. No joke. It doesn't matter that she's lost both of her parents within a year or that she's going through a divorce. To Beau, being skinny is the only thing that matters. With the same delicious brand of satire that Sykes and Piazza became known for in The Knockoff (2015), Janey falls down the rabbit hole of fitness trends, skinny mommy blogs, and juice cleanses in search of a weight-loss savior. If you think naked yoga isn't real, Google it. If you don't think you can laugh at scenarios involving psychedelic cactus and an exclusive healing ceremony in Brooklyn, then you won't appreciate this book's particular flavor of excess. The journey to skinny is livened up by a memorable supporting cast: there's CJ, Janey's college friend who is levelheaded about everything besides her weight (in that respect, she's a maniac); Jacob, a superattractive, dumpster-diving single dad; and Ivy, Janey's younger cousin, a former ballerina-turned-SoarBarre instructor with the mouth of a sailor. The journey culminates with Janey becoming a follower of "The Workout," the latest craze promising to have you 15 pounds lighter, as long as you're able to pay the exorbitant price associated with a retreat to St. Lucia. Though it's hard to sympathize with someone who can afford to have healthy meals catered on a daily basis, this novel is about indulging in the ridiculous. You'll have to overlook details like sporadic point-of-view changes and the fact that St. Lucia is not actually a Spanish-speaking country on the path to finding your inner "warrior queen." You'll breeze through this one like you would a Saturday spin class with the most fabulous playlist and the promise of brunch cocktails after.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940172110306 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 07/11/2017 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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