![]() ![]() After he released his hold on my necklace I had a brief coughing fit, which led to a discussion of my globus and the color doctor. ![]() The instant New York Times bestseller is 'astonishing.In one novel, Miranda July tells us more. It was something you could do only with someone you really trusted, someone who knew how capable and good you actually were. The First Bad Man available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. The joke was, Can you believe people? The tacky kinds of things they do? But it had another layer to it, because imitating crass people was kind of liberating-like pretending to be a child or a crazy person. I’d laughed too, immediately reaching around to close it back up. He’s been doing these things for years once, during a board meeting, he insisted my blouse wasn’t zipped up in back, and then he unzipped it, laughing. “Hey,” he said, “I like this, this is handy.” An outsider, such as Nakako the grant writer, might have thought this moment was degrading, but I knew the degradation was just a joke he was mocking the kind of man who would do something like that. ![]() Calling her 'passive' would be a serious understatement. He had lifted the heavy beads off my chest and said, “This is phenomenal, where’d you get it?” and I said, “From a vendor at the farmer’s market,” and then he used the beads to pull me toward him. Cheryl Glickman, the heroine of Miranda Julys first novel, ' The First Bad Man ,' has self-esteem issues. This had been my plan, to use the same word that he had used to describe my necklace at the fundraiser. ![]()
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