
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of "No One Belongs Here More Than You," a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny--so Miranda July--that readers will be blown away. 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...
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Egentligen håller inte boken ihop som roman för den är liksom för utspridd, för mycket händer, och den bara pågår. Lite tjatig liksom. Men Miranda julys sätt att tänka och skriva är helt fantastiskt och egensinnigt och bara det att läsa nåt som är helt nytt, men ändå få känslan av att det här beskriver mänskligheten i hela sitt spektra. Wow!