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An exuberant novel about a young womans quest to carve her own patheven if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way
Its 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen-year-old Celia Dent keeps telling herself how lucky she is to be married to Drew, a man who says he loves her. But Celias contentment with her little life is shattered when a woman she knows is murdered in a love tryst gone awry. What would that be like, Celia wonders, to dieor killfor love? What would it be like to live each moment passionately and with full knowledge that each breath is bringing her closer to her final breath?
Before Celia knows it her musings about love-and-death happenings are bleeding into daily life. Shes practicing her marksmanship at a local gun range. She’s searching for a love tryst of her very own. She’s thinking about how good it would feel to bury something sharp inside her domineering husbands ear. Its all pretend, though, until the night comes when Celia finally goes too far, and she and Drew are set on a deadly collision course.
Exhilarating, surreal, and bitingly clever, Evil Genius is a comic noir about obsession and desireand what happens when a sweetly seditious young woman dares to imagine a better life for herself.
Claire Oshetsky is also the author of the novels Poor Deer and Chouette, which was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
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