(For instance, Clee, a busty blond, has her hotness factor considerably diminished by an odorous fungal infection on her feet.) Even the artiest show on HBO would shy away from this shape-shifting liaison, which explores sexuality without relying on the traditionally erotic. They launch an affair that veers between mother-daughter and aggressor-victim. Her carefully regimented world is upended when Clee, her boss’ 21-year-old daughter, moves in with her. The book’s loose plot is anchored by Cheryl, the aforementioned control freak, a single lady working at a women’s self-defense nonprofit. Written over three or so years, “The First Bad Man” embraces the strange and taboo: psychosomatic throat problems, weird affairs that cross age boundaries, violent but transcendental interactions between women and the graphic sexual fantasies of a frumpy control freak in her early 40s.
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