Reviews
“The Baby Merchant is a thriller about the horrors of pregnancy that can stand beside Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Kit Reed supposes a near future in which children have replaced real estate as the next hot commodity. It’s one helluva hell-on-earth.” —Thomas M. Disch
“Kit Reed’s work freaks me out. The Baby Merchant is whip-smart and thoughtful, nervy and nervewracking, and it keeps me up until late, wanting to know how it turns out and begging to know how she does it. Then, in the morning, I blearily wander the streets, forcing total strangers to read her so they can be freaked out too. Don’t make me come to your town.” —Daniel Handler
“Now I know why we emerged from the caves into the light, discovered the wheel, and lit the first fires: to become a species that would produce Kit Reed; so that Ms. Reed would write The Baby Merchant. What a long, wearying, but worthwhile trip it has been.” —Harlan Ellison
“A smart, twisty thriller in a future far too easy to imagine. The merchant himself, Kit Reed’s Tom Starbird, is the deep, dark center of the book and, like Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, is someone I will remember for a long, long time.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club on The Baby Merchant
“A heart-felt, heart-stopping novel ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, The Baby Merchant explodes our national obsessions with celebrity, children, and cold hard cash.” —Elizabeth Hand, author of Mortal Love
“A clever what-if, Reed’s tale is provocative as well as amusing.” —People on Thinner Than Thou
“Health clubs replace houses of worship in Kit Reed’s not-so-science-fiction novel Thinner Than Thou.” —Vanity Fair
“A timely, witty page-turner which tells us the truth about ourselves and our society while making us laugh aloud. Reed remains one of the most cheerful and accurate of modern social observers.” —Michael Moorcock on Thinner Than Thou
