"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īn Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2015: Cheryl Glickman is an employee at a self-defense nonprofit, an ironic profession once you get to know her. The First Bad Man is dazzling, disorienting, and unforgettable. Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual obsession 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. And yet it is Clee-the selfish, cruel blond bombshell-who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime. 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. She believes they’ve been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women’s self-defense nonprofit where she works. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people’s babies. Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. 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.
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