Unread but a corner got bent during shipping, see photos. Bad Words follows Parker Navarro, whose debut was snapped up in a million-dollar deal and pegged to be the book of the year?until notorious City Magazine critic Selina Chan tore it apart, turning it into the decade?s biggest flop. Now, four years later, Parker?s second novel is about to drop, and he?s desperate for redemption. But when Selina?s brutal new review goes viral, history repeats itself, and a fiery, very public blowout between them at a publishing party turns them into instant enemies of the literary world. As their feud plays out through snarky interviews and tense convention run-ins, their jabs about writing, criticism, and who gets to lead an artist?s life start to give way to the realization they might be more like-minded than they thought. While the feud carries on in public, a different conversation is taking place in private, especially after they're thrust together for one snowy New York evening and begin an epistolary communication that starts to feel a lot like flirting.