Bad Thoughts: Stories

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Synopsis
An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and compulsive irreverence, explores the most surreal and inadmissible fantasies of contemporary women.&“Nada Alic&’s Bad Thoughts is lit up with the perception, wit, and cunning of Miranda July and Sally Rooney.&” —T. Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GirlsNada Alic's women—the perverts, nobodies, reality TV stars, poetic hopefuls, shameless party girls, and self-help addicts of Los Angeles and its environs—are all wrestling with a shared stark reality: the modern world. To cope, they live in their baddest thoughts: the lush, strange landscape of female make-believe.In &“Earth to Lydia,&” a support group meets to enjoy earthly pleasures after achieving "too much enlightenment," engaging in bizarre exercises that escalate to a point of violence and fear. The narrator of "Ghost Baby"—the spirit of a proto-child assigned to a couple whose chemistry is waning—writhes in disembodied frustration as its parents fail to conceive it. In &“Daddy's Girl,&” the daughter of Eastern European immigrants tries to connect to her distant and difficult father through the invention of increasingly elaborate home maintenance repairs. And in &“The Intruder,&” a lonely woman&’s break-in fantasy quickly builds to a full-blown obsession, until she finds an unwitting partner with whom to act it out.Though each of Alic&’s characters thrive and ache in different circumstances, they all grapple with the most painful equations of modern life: love, trust, power, loneliness, desire, violation, and vengeance. And she conjures them all with a voice that is instantly arresting, unexpectedly hilarious, and absolutely unforgettable. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593466643
Related ISBNs:
9780593466636
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Penguin Random House
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Humor
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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