![]() ![]() ![]() Cheryl is on her way to the doctor – actually, a New Age practitioner of colour therapy – because she suffers from globus hystericus, the anxiety-induced feeling of having a lump in her throat that makes it hard to swallow. The novel by July, an American filmmaker, performance artist and app-creator, is a much- anticipated follow-up to her 2007 short-story collection, No One Belongs Here More Than You.Ĭheryl – 43, single and childless – has a crush on Phillip, a rich, ageing hippie who sits on the board of the Los Angeles non-profit where she works, and lusts after a 16-year-old girl. ![]() The first sentence of Miranda July's debut novel, The First Bad Man, suggests the almost surreal self-absorption of its problematic narrator: "I drove to the doctor's office as if I was starring in a movie Phillip was watching." ![]()
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