![]() ![]() 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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