Sexy Life, Hello
A Novella
by Michelle Kicherer
Banana Pitch Press
A dark comedy about a nanny who doubles as a porn star's sexter.
After getting fired from her job as a fourth grade teacher, Jane takes on two jobs at once: as a nanny for twin babies and as a sexter for a famous porn star. Soon, Jane is feeding Franny and Zooey with one hand and shooting off ridiculous sexts with the other. At first, she feels it’s like a joke: a lot of her clientele are into scat play or “mystical bestiality.” By the end of her first month on the sexting-nanny jobs, Jane is making significantly more money than she could have ever made as a teacher. She sees a way to move out of her rundown childhood home on the California Central Coast; a way to finally have a nice place of her own. And it feels great—until Jane realizes she isn’t as anonymous as she thought.
SEXY LIFE, HELLO teeters between satire and literary thriller. Infused with creepy-gross moments reminiscent of Ottessa Moshfegh and Miranda July, a dark, twisting storyline in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith, and a dry wit uniquely Kicherer, this fascinating debut novella introduces a bold and exciting new voice in contemporary literature.
About the Author
Michelle Kicherer writes about books for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. Her fiction has been published in The Master’s Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Rougarou, and others, and has earned her the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction and the Leila Aba Saba Prize for Prose Writing. Her novella SEXY LIFE, HELLO was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award, won an Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant and was named a “Get It” book by Kirkus Reviews. Michelle teaches writing classes at Portland Community College, Literary Arts and online, and often encourages her students to get a little weirder. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is her debut fiction book.
