From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of no one belongs here more than you, comes a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny, so Miranda July. Readers will be astonished.

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.

米兰达·裘丽（Miranda July）

她是作家，也是导演、演员和音乐创作人。

1974年出生，现居美国洛杉矶。

1997年起，陆续在独立音乐厂牌推出三张唱片。

2005年首度自编自导自演剧情片《爱情我你他》（Me and You and Everyone We Kn ow），荣获同年戛纳电影节评论周单元大奖、金摄影机奖等四个奖项，

另获美国圣丹斯国际电影节评审团特别奖、旧金山国际电影节最佳剧情等多个奖项。

2007年出版首部短篇小说集《没有人比你更属于这里》。