A Little Bit Bad: The dazzlingly wild and darkly funny debut novel about desire, obsession, motherhood and marriage - Couverture rigide

Neyenesch, Cassandra

 
9780241792896: A Little Bit Bad: The dazzlingly wild and darkly funny debut novel about desire, obsession, motherhood and marriage

Synopsis

'This darkly funny, slippery novel is a hoot to read and will please fans of Miranda July’s All Fours' The i Paper

Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her ‘anarcho-Marxist’ handyman, is a crisis.

Life seems to put every possible obstacle in their way: she’s pregnant, he has a girlfriend, he’s fifteen years younger, she’s terrified of messing up her children and equally drawn towards this magnetic man who entrusts her with his deepest secret.

Now it's three years later and Nando has been murdered.

As her bewildered husband tries to make sense of the wildly unpredictable person his wife has become, Perdita has other things on her mind. For starters, who is the mysterious woman sitting outside her house in a parked car all day? How can she stop her adored baby brother from being pulled under by his opioid addiction? Can someone with a childhood like hers ever be the mother her children deserve?

And most of all, what should she do with the searing memories of the affair that turned her life upside down?

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Cassandra Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator whose reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Autres éditions populaires du même titre