The First Bad Man: A Novel

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—that 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 peoples babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the womens self-defense nonprofit where she works. She believes theyve been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one. When Cheryls bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a little while, Cheryls eccentrically ordered world explodes.