This novel is almost impossible to put down, and confirms July as a novelist of the first order."
She narrates this very intimate epic of a story - a story that starts in a place of brittle, quirky, loneliness and progresses into a profoundly moving story of nontraditional love and commitment. "Cheryl Glickman, Miranda July's heroine in this unforgettable novel, is one of the most original, most confounding and strangely sympathetic characters in recent fiction. Dana Spiotta, author of Innocents and Others The First Bad Man is like no other novel you will read this year (or any other year).” It is a novel about aging, about motherhood, about sex, about weird wounded women-yes-but it is really a novel about the desperate possibility in all of us to love and be loved. “Miranda July's exciting and wild novel The First Bad Man begins deeply, absurdly funny, gets increasingly twisted and strange, and then ends quietly, urgently heartfelt. Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree With IMAX-scale emotional projections, a post-gay regimen of sexual fantasies, and a cast of riveting misfits worthy of Kurt Vonnegut, July takes us on a picaresque journey in which the heroine's ultimate challenge turns out to be a stunningly ordinary circumstance more transfixing than all the virtual caprices a 21st-century mind can muster.” “With The First Bad Man, Miranda July provides an audaciously original, often hilarious map of the ever-expanding reach of unhinged imagination in America. Lena Dunham, author of Not That Kind of Girl Never has a novel spoken so deeply to my sexuality, my spirituality, my secret self. By the time July tackles motherhood, the book has become a bible. Writing in the first person with the frank, odd lilt of an utterly truthful character, she will make you laugh, cringe and recognize yourself in a woman you never planned to be. “Miranda July's ability to pervert norms while embracing what makes us normal is astounding. With it, the esteemed artist and filmmaker joins the front rank of young American novelists-and then surpasses them.”
“Miranda July's first novel announces something new, not only in its invention, characterization, and pace, but emotional truth. George Saunders, author of Tenth of December If I ever start to doubt the power of language and intelligence, I only have to read a few lines of July to have my faith restored.” Hers is smart, funny, twisted, vulnerable, humane, and reassuring: a dazzling human consciousness speaking frankly and fondly and directly to you. “July’s work reminds us that the essential storytelling tool is voice.
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