Evil Genius

一部狂放不羁、残酷爆笑的小说，讲述一位年轻女性为开辟自己的道路——哪怕路上需要跨过几具尸体——所展现的无尽渴求。

1974年，旧金山充满了谜团与险恶。十九岁的西莉亚·登特不断告诉自己，她有多幸运：能在电话公司工作，还能嫁给德鲁——那个说爱她的男人。然而，当她一位女同事在一场失控的私会中被谋杀后，西莉亚对自己渺小生活的满足感彻底粉碎。为爱而死——或为爱杀人——会是什么感觉？西莉亚忍不住想。如果充满激情地活在每个瞬间，清醒地意识到每次呼吸都让她更接近终点，那又会是怎样的人生？

不知不觉中，西莉亚关于爱与死亡的种种臆想，开始渗入她的日常生活。突然间，她开始翘班，去寻觅一场属于自己的私会。她在当地的射击场练习枪法，幻想着将尖锐之物刺入她那专横丈夫的耳朵里会有多痛快。这一切都只是假想——直到那个夜晚来临，西莉亚终于越界，她与德鲁就此踏上致命的碰撞之路。

令人振奋、超现实又锋芒毕露的《罪恶天才》是一部喜剧黑色小说，探索着痴迷与欲望——以及当一个甜美而叛逆的年轻女性，敢于想象一种更好的生活时，会发生什么。

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An exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young woman’s insatiable quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way

It’s 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen-year-old Celia Dent keeps telling herself how lucky she is to be working at the phone company and to be married to her Drew, a man who says he loves her. Celia’s contentment with her little life is shattered, though, when a woman she knows from work is murdered in a love tryst gone awry. What would that be like, Celia wonders, to die for love—or to kill for love? What would it be like to live each moment passionately and with full awareness that each breath is bringing her closer to her last?

Before Celia knows it, her musings about love-and-death happenings are bleeding into daily life. Suddenly she’s playing hooky from work and searching for a love tryst of her very own. She’s practicing her marksmanship at a local gun range and thinking about how good it would feel to bury something sharp inside her domineering husband’s ear. It’s all pretend, though, until the night comes when Celia finally goes too far, and she and Drew are set on a deadly collision course.

Exhilarating, surreal, and bitingly clever, Evil Genius is a comic noir exploring obsession and desire—and what happens when a sweetly seditious young woman dares to imagine a better life.