Bad Nature by Courage, Ariel

Bad Nature

Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her...
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Author: Ariel Courage
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Bad Nature by Courage, Ariel

Bad Nature

$44.76

Bad Nature

$44.76
Author: Ariel Courage
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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

"Bad Nature shows we're getting selfishness all wrong. As uproariously funny as a takedown of our deadly society can be, the novel is also an urgent call to exchange possession for belonging."
--Alissa Nutting, The New York Times

When Hester is diagnosed with terminal cancer on her fortieth birthday, 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 starts driving west. 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 experience along the way dissuade Hester from her 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 lament for 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: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.44w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781250360885


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2025 pg. 2
Booklist 02/01/2025 pg. 22
Publishers Weekly 02/24/2025
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2025
Shelf Awareness 03/29/2025

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. Her short work has appeared in Guernica, New Limestone Review, and The End. She was also a 2019 Kimmel Harding Nelson resident.

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