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The First Bad Man
A General Fiction Novel by Miranda July
Subgenres:
- Literary Fiction,
- Dark Comedy,
- Queer Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Offbeat roommate stories with wild, unpredictable relationships
- Women's self-defense nonprofits and their quirky workplace dynamics
- Narratives blending raging sexual fantasies with fierce maternal instincts
The "brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing" debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.
Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defense nonprofit and lives alone.
When her bosses ask if their twenty-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee—the selfish, cruel blond bombshell—who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, leads her to the love of a lifetime.
Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual fantasies and fierce maternal love, Miranda July's first novel confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time.
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