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The Blondes


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Satire,
  • Apocalyptic Fiction,
  • Pregnancy Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Satirical epidemics where beauty becomes a threat
  • Literary thrillers with biting humor about gender and society
  • Stories exploring complex relationships between women under extreme pressure
Publisher Description

The Blondes is a hilarious and whipsmart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, all of whom must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness.

Hazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens, she learns she is pregnant (from an affair with her married professor) at an apocalyptically bad time: random but deadly attacks on passers-by, all by blonde women, are terrorizing New Yorkers.

Soon it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange illness that is transforming blondes—whether CEOs, flight attendants, students or accountants—into rabid killers.

Emily Schultz's beautifully realized novel is a mix of satire, thriller, and serious literary work. With biting satiric wit, The Blondes is at once an examination of the complex relationships between women, and a merciless but giddily enjoyable portrait of what happens in a world where beauty is—literally—deadly.

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