米兰达·裘丽（Miranda July）

她是作家，也是导演、演员和音乐创作人。

1974年出生，现居美国洛杉矶。

1997年起，陆续在独立音乐厂牌推出三张唱片。

2005年首度自编自导自演剧情片《爱情我你他》（Me and You and Everyone We Kn ow），荣获同年戛纳电影节评论周单元大奖、金摄影机奖等四个奖项，

另获美国圣丹斯国际电影节评审团特别奖、旧金山国际电影节最佳剧情等多个奖项。

2007年出版首部短篇小说集《没有人比你更属于这里》。

From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of no one belongs here more than you, comes a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny, so Miranda July. Readers will be astonished.

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 selfish, cruel blond bombshell—who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime.

Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual obsession and fierce maternal love, Miranda July’s first novel confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time. The First Bad Man is dazzling, disorienting, and unforgettable.