Bad Nature: A Novel Catherine Airey The girls at church think

The girls at church think she’s mean

But after one of their shared acts

But her insistence that her son

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Bad Nature: A Novel Catherine Airey The girls at church thinkArmed 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. 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 shes built in New York