The First Bad Man

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Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, and infused with raging sexual fantasies and fierce maternal love -- quintessentially Miranda July. Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable w oman in her 40s who lives with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people's babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they've been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one.When Cheryl's bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl's eccentrically-ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee -- the selfish, cruel blond bombshell -- who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime. The spectacular debut novel from the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of All Fours that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny readers will be blown away. Show more