{"product_id":"a-little-bit-bad-9781668213124","title":"A Little Bit Bad","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A feisty true-crime obsessive's erotic awakening.\" --Ada Calhoun, author of \u003ci\u003eCrush\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \"compulsively readable\" (Sophie Stava, author of \u003ci\u003eCount My Lies\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about a San Diego housewife whose love affair with her neighbor's roofer is interrupted by a murder.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her neighbor's anarcho-Marxist roofer, is a crisis. Life seems to put every possible obstacle in their way: she's pregnant, he has a girlfriend, he's fifteen years younger, she's terrified of messing up her children and equally drawn towards this magnetic man who entrusts her with his deepest secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now it's three years later and Nando has been murdered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As her bewildered husband tries to make sense of the wildly unpredictable person his wife has become, Perdita has other things on her mind. For starters, who is the mysterious woman sitting outside her house in a parked car all day? How can she stop her adored baby brother from being pulled under by his opioid addiction? Can someone with a childhood like hers ever be the mother her children deserve? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And most of all, what should she do with the searing memories of the affair which turned her life upside down?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cassandra Neyenesch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e S\u0026amp;s\/Summit Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.30w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668213124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCassandra Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer, activist, and curator. Neyenesch's reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe International Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Cassandra Neyenesch \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48229120409757,"sku":"9781668213124","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_819ba8d2-3d0d-4c71-9709-81b37bfd0d7d.jpg?v=1778575661","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/a-little-bit-bad-9781668213124","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}