{"product_id":"the-first-bad-man-9781439172575","title":"The First Bad Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \"brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and author of \u003ci\u003eAll Fours, \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defense nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee--the selfish, cruel blond bombshell--who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, leads her to the love of a lifetime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual fantasies 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiranda July is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe First Bad Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was an instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and her collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eNo One Belongs Here More Than You\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, Harper's, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eand she is also the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eAll Fours, \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. July lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50585425346834,"sku":"9781439172575","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f1cec29-5be5-4e0f-818c-320bdd501bed.jpg?v=1737300635","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-first-bad-man-9781439172575","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}