![]() One had to suppose it was the dog, shot, but refusing to die.” She imagines herself as an old dog that will be abandoned once she and Philip become lovers, then mixes her own bowel movement into the metaphor: “I flushed and washed my hands and only by luck did I happen to glance back at the toilet. Cheryl’s inner world is often pushed to the very edges of weirdness. The language and details July chooses to illustrate Cheryl and her desires are the witty, absurd kind that make July’s perspective so unique. I made a shocked face that was too extreme and quickly ratcheted it down to baffled surprise. ![]() There’s comedy in how earnestly Cheryl tries to be wanted: when Philip invites her over for dinner (the sixty year old man has a confession he’s been wanting to make to Cheryl), she puts on “the pin striped dress shirt again and a very small amount of taupe eye shadow.” Inside Philip’s home, he touches Cheryl’s arm: The novel propels on a series of desires: first, it’s the possible romantic interest of Philip, a prominent donor to the self defense organization. ![]() A single woman in Los Angeles, she works from home for a self defense aerobics course, the owners of which she has labored for for twenty years. In Miranda July’s debut novel The First Bad Man, Cheryl Glickman is the dowdy, middle aged protagonist of a strange but moving story, and one half of a relationship well beyond traditional examples of love. ![]()
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