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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 people s babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women s self-defense nonprofit 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 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. The First Bad Man is dazzling, disorienting, and unforgettable.