num_pages: 288
description: From the acclaimed filmmaker artist and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking so dirty so tender so funny--so Miranda July--readers will be blown away. Here is Cheryl a tightly-wound vulnerable woman who lives alone 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. 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. The First Bad Man is dazzling disorienting and unforgettable.
language: English
title: The First Bad Man
publisher: Scribner