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"  Marcy Dermansky does proud the long, often sketchy, sometimes illustrious tradition of transgressive fiction with Bad Marie (Harper Perennial), her follow-up novel to her admired 2005 debut, Twins. As the story begins, the titular Marie has just finished a six-year prison stint for being an accessory to murder and bank robbery\u2014a deadly misdeed coauthored by her boyfriend, who then killed himself in jail.  But Dermansky is not interested in pursuing any kind of poor-Marie variation on what happens next. Her Marie is no cry-baby Anna Karenina fated to a star-crossed love for which she pays with her life. This big-bosomed 30-year-old ex-con makes a beeline for the doorstep of her childhood best friend, good-girl Ellen and her pristine New York City home. There, she is hired as the nanny for Caitlin, the toddler daughter of Ellen and her French novelist husband, Beno\u00EEt.  Before long, Marie\u2014who likes &amp;quot;a little whiskey, a little chocolate... watching bad television...afternoon naps,&amp;quot; and especially taking bubble baths with her young charge\u2014is discovered by the couple passed out in their tub. Her frank nakedness registers as a mais oui! in the hyper-Gallic Beno\u00EEt&amp;#039;s busy imagination, and they embark on an affair that takes them far, far away, with Caitlin, to naughty Paris and beyond.  Allowing us a kind of all-access pass to the workings of Marie&amp;#039;s feverish psyche, Dermansky writes, &amp;quot;Marie did not want Beno\u00EEt because he belonged to Ellen. She wanted him because of the baguette sandwiches. She wanted him because of the sex in the afternoon.&amp;quot; How can one not admire such a perfectly drawn mini portrait of perfidy? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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