01710cam a2200289 i 4500 605165268 TxGeo 20220902120000.0 220203s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022005045 9780593466636 trade pbk. 0593466632 trade pbk. TxGeo rda Alic, Nada, author. Bad thoughts : stories / Nada Alic. New York, NY : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022. 292 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An exhilarating and delightfully deviant debut story collection that, with comedic precision and compulsive irreverence, explores the most surreal and inadmissible fantasies of contemporary women. In her startlingly funny debut collection, Nada Alic portrays characters compelled by an inner agitation-a deep desire to know themselves beyond their prescribed social roles of wife, artist, woman, friend. Bad Thoughts journeys inside the subterranean realm of a woman's mind where her most feral instincts reign. Mundane ruminations on how to sound normal on the phone and where Danish people are from rub up against weighty, existential meditations like Am I a bad person? and Have I wasted my life? Alic conjures these thoughts with a voice that is instantly arresting, unexpectedly hilarious, and absolutely unforgettable"-- Provided by publisher. 20220916. Women Fiction. Black humor. Short stories. QS5