The Three-Week Trance Diet

The Three-Week Trance Diet is a funny fantasy novel, winner of the Carpenter Press First Novel Award. Reviewer Rick Henry said, "Jane Piirto serves up a lip-smacking, gum-popping narrative stance in The Three-Week Trance Diet. She spices it up with a plot that has more twists than a soap opera, and garnishes it with a cast of characters ranging from a dyslexic brat armed with a little more than the usual sixteen-year-old, to a line of high kickers from a Broadway show cheering on a biker named O.D. in a duel. The result? A sparkling feast for readers." Finalists in the Carpenter Press Tenth Anniversary First Novel Competition were judged independently by Terry Stokes and Judy Hogan. The Three-Week Trance Diet is a post-feminist satire, at times fantastical, about feminine rivalry, marriage, and exploitation—sexual and otherwise. In the words of judge Judy Hogan, “It has zest, fun; it hits hard at cultural folly, and it’s one I would enjoy re-reading . . . and reading out loud to friends.”