Evil Genius A Novel

Claire Oshetsky

eBook - 2026

A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * New York Times * People * VultureAn 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 wayIt'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 fo...r 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...

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Published
HarperCollins
Language
English
Main Author
Claire Oshetsky
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Kindle Book
ASINB0F8YJWTYG
Release Date2/17/2026
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780063466494
Release Date2/17/2026