El primer hombre malo / The First Bad Man - Tapa blanda

Cheryl esta en la cuarentena, vive sola y es reservada. Por extrano que parezca, suele mantener conversaciones con cualquier recien nacido que se encuentra. Hace tiempo que trabaja en una empresa que mezcla videos de autodefensa femenina con el fitness, y ahora esta enamorada de uno de los miembros del consejo de administracion.
Un dia, Cheryl se ve obligada a acoger en su casa, y por un tiempo indeterminado, a Clee, la hija veinteanera de sus jefes. El antagonismo entre ambas, patente desde el principio, deriva en enfrentamientos fisicos y violentos en los que Cheryl siempre es la victima; un bullying domestico consentido con connotaciones sexuales. En este marco surrealista, llega el dia en que Clee confiesa estar embarazada y esto lo cambia todo.
La aclamada cineasta, artista y escritora Miranda July nos presenta su primera novela. Un debut novelistico espectacular, lleno del universo excentrico y surrealista por el que la autora ya ha sido reconocida. Una novela fascinante, llena de ternura y astutamente divertida que conecta emocionalmente al lector con comportamientos que se alejan de lo convencional.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The instant New York Times bestseller is "astonishing...In one novel, Miranda July tells us more about our universal need to be loved, and our ability to love and be loved, than most earthbound authors will in a lifetime" (Vanity Fair).
In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story of Cheryl, a vulnerable, uptight woman in her early forties who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat, unable to cry. Cheryl is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six; she also believes she has a profound connection with Phillip, a philandering board member at Open Palm, the women's self-defense studio where she has worked for twenty years.
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 teaches Cheryl what it means to love and be loved and, inadvertently, provides the solace of a lifetime.
"Brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing--The First Bad Man powers past sexual boundaries and gender identification into the surprising galaxy of primal connection" (O, The Oprah Magazine).
This is a spectacularly original, unsettling, accomplished, and moving first novel with a tender and beguiling happy ending.

Miranda July is a filmmaker, writer, and artist. Her stories have appeared in "The New Yorker, The Paris Review, " and "Harper s. "The story collection" No One Belongs Here More Than You "won the Frank O Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. She wrote, directed, and starred in "The Future". Her film, "Me and You and Everyone We Know", received a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d Or at Cannes. In 2014 she debuted the audience-participatory performance, New Society, at the Walker Art Center, and launched the messaging service app, Somebody.