The First Bad Man
Miranda July
Scribner
<p>From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of <i>No One Belongs Here More Than You</i>, a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny&#8212;so Miranda July&#8212;readers will be blown away.<br />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.<br /> <br />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&#8212;the selfish, cruel blond bombshell&#8212;who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love...</p></br>