![]() ![]() ![]() Cheryl is, shall we say, ripe for psychoanalysis.Ĭheryl begrudgingly hosts Clee, her bosses' daughter, a beautiful, smelly, selfish young woman. She'll stare at strangers' babies, trying to assess whether or not the infant is another version of her long-lost baby friend. She occasionally comes across babies with whom she feels an immense connection. Oh, she is also spiritually linked to the reincarnation of a baby she met when she was 6. Cheryl lives alone and is in love with Philip, who referred her to the doctor he's on the board at the women's self-defense nonprofit where she works. She never cries instead, the globus grows when she's emotional. ![]() ![]() Who but July can describe a finger like that? If you're a seasoned July fan, you can hear her wavering, calm voice in your head.Ĭheryl is heading to a chromotherapist, to seek treatment for her globus hystericus - she has the unending sensation of having a lump in her throat, making it difficult to swallow. The kind of finger that was up for anything." Then Cheryl "strolled through the parking garage an into the elevator, pressing twelve with a casual, fun-loving finger. "I drove to the doctor's office as if I was starring in a movie Philip was watching," July writes in the first sentence. In the opening paragraph of Miranda July's debut novel The First Bad Man(Scribner) our protagonist Cheryl drives to a doctor's office and feels terrific. ![]()
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