米蘭達·裘麗（Miranda July）

她是作傢，也是導演、演員和音樂創作人。

1974年齣生，現居美國洛杉磯。

1997年起，陸續在獨立音樂廠牌推齣三張唱片。

2005年首度自編自導自演劇情片《愛情我你他》（Me and You and Everyone We Kn ow），榮獲同年戛納電影節評論周單元大奬、金攝影機奬等四個奬項，

另獲美國聖丹斯國際電影節評審團特彆奬、舊金山國際電影節最佳劇情等多個奬項。

2007年齣版首部短篇小說集《沒有人比你更屬於這裏》。

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.