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<p>&#8220;Wexler reminds us that Americans have completely lost perspective, both literally and figuratively&#8230; Amusing and timely.&#8221; &#8212; Kirkus Reviews <p>&#8220;By turns horrified, tempted, incredulous, guilt-ridden, mystified, and captivated by these excesses, Wexler approaches her subject with a compassion born of her own complicity (she's an SUV driver and enjoys her shopping)&#8230; Wexler brings a friendly first-person perspective to her study of surfeit and of the psychology behind our compulsion to consume and squander.&#8221; &#8212; Publishers Weekly <p>&#8220;Wexler takes us on the most insightful couch-potato tour of American excess out there.&#8230; Filled with the comic irony of a Stewart or Colbert.&#8221; &#8212;John de Graaf, coauthor of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic <p> I'll just say it, since someone has to: This is a hugely entertaining book. &#8212;A.J. Jacobs, author of The Guinea Pig Diaries and The Year of Living Biblically <p>&#8220;P

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SARAH Z. WEXLER is a staff writer at Allure. She has written for Esquire, Wired, The Washington Post Magazine, Popular Science, Marie Claire, and Ladies' Home Journal. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and lives in New York.

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