Community Klepto, Kelly I Hitchcock
Community Klepto, Kelly I Hitchcock
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Community Klepto
A Novel

Author: Kelly I Hitchcock

Narrator: Dahlia Black (Synthesised), Synthesised Voice

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2023


Synopsis

This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration. 
Ann Josephson is a twenty-five-year-old sociopath whose compulsive kleptomania manifests itself in the most unlikely of places: the community center where she works out every day. The walls of the community center insulate her from the terrors of the outside world, which include her freelance work as a graphic artist; her socialite parents, who pay the better part of her living expenses; her therapist, who devotedly punches the clock; and the dark void of romantic relationships.As Ann battles the inner demons that plague her millennial psyche, she must also battle the fiends that plague her at the gym: the loudly grunting beefcake who can’t be bothered to drop his weights at a reasonable volume, the naked old lady in the locker room using a towel as butt floss, the housewife in yoga pants that obviate the need for yoga wheeling her double stroller up and down the indoor track. Set in suburban Kansas City in the early 2010s, Community Klepto—a droll combination of Bridget Jones’ Diary and Choke—makes incarnate the characters and shenanigans that go on in every gym in the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stacy40pages on June 27, 2022

Community Klepto by Kelly I. Hitchcock ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ann’s kleptomania comes out at her local community gym. As she experiences life at her gym, her thefts climb. I’m so glad that I saw my friend post this book because I loved it! It appealed to me instantly. I was cracking up reading this book. If you......more

Goodreads review by Susan on July 08, 2022

Meet Ann Josephson; Ann is a gym rat; Ann is also a kleptomaniac. A young millennial, Ann struggles to relate to the world around her - whether it be her family, her therapist, or the people she encounters (and steals from) at the gym. Narrated by Ann, we get to be inside her head. She’s blunt, rude,......more

Goodreads review by Louise on June 08, 2022

While this book is about a socially insecure young woman who is in therapy to help her stop being a kleptomaniac, I assure you this book is fun! Ann is constantly pilfering things from her community center’s gym, things that her fellow patrons don’t take the time and effort to secure in a locker. It......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on June 18, 2022

TITLE: COMMUNITY KLEPTO AUTHOR: Kelly I Hitchcock PUB DATE: 06.21.2022 Preorder now REVIEW: Community Klepto is a well written and compulsively hilarious read with some dark undertones that readers will find fascinating. I certainly did. I had a great time spending some hours in Ann’s head, and the way......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on February 09, 2022

I was given an advance review copy by the author. The author is me. I am obviously biased and I hope everyone who reads it loves it. Some of you won't, and that's okay. Books are, and should be, subjective. Sometimes my own humor surprises me, but I've now read this book so many times, that the fact......more