Bad Nature by Courage, Ariel

Bad Nature

Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, forty-year-old Hester sets out to fulfill...
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Author: Ariel Courage
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Language: English
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Bad Nature by Courage, Ariel

Bad Nature

€41,38

Bad Nature

€41,38
Author: Ariel Courage
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, forty-year-old Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny novel.

It's Hester's fortieth birthday when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she's built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative job in corporate law and sets off. She hasn't made it far when she runs into John, an environmental activist in need of a ride to different superfund sites across the United States. From five-star Midwestern hotels to cultish Southwestern compounds, the two slowly make their way across the country. But will the revelations they make along the way dissuade Hester from her final goal?

Ragingly singular and surprisingly moving, Bad Nature is a story of stunning detours and twists until its final destination. Part road trip novel, part revenge tale, part a lament of our ongoing ecological crisis, it's ultimately a deft examination of the indulgence of holding grudges, moral ambivalence, and the eternal possibility of redemption.

Author: Ariel Courage
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 04/01/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250360885

About the Author
Ariel Courage is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she was editor-in-chief of The Brooklyn Review. She's currently an assistant fiction editor at AGNI Magazine. Her short work has appeared in Guernica, The New Limestone Review, and Works Progress, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was also a 2019 Kimmel Harding Nelson resident.

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