The Voice Recommends: Seven Days in Rio

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Seven Days in Rio
By Francis Levy
Two Dollar Radio, 148 pp., $16

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• Rio de Janeiro
• Kenny Cantor
• Sam Lipsyte
• Vacations
• Sexual Offenses

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In Francis Levy’s rather hilarious new novel Seven Days in Rio, an American C.P.A. named Kenny Cantor goes on vacation in Rio de Janeiro to indulge his life-long love of the sex trade. But in Levy’s phantasmagorical satire, Rio is a place where virtually every woman is a prostitute, or as Kenny likes to call them, a “Tiffany.” Levy follows Kenny’s misadventures in this comically exaggerated world, exploits that also manage to serve up a withering satire of Lacanian psychology (among other schools o’ shrinkage). Maybe the funniest American novel since Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask.