Blondes

The Blondes is a hilarious and whipsmart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women all of whom must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness. . Hazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens she learns she is pregnant (from an affair with her married professor) at an apocalyptically bad time: random but deadly attacks on passers-by all by blonde women are terrorizing New Yorkers. Soon it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange illness that is transforming blondes—whether CEOs flight attendants students or accountants—into rabid killers. Emily Schultz''s beautifully realized novel is a mix of satire thriller and serious literary work. With biting satiric wit The Blondes is at once an examination of the complex relationships between women and a merciless but giddily enjoyable portrait of what happens in a world where beauty is—literally—deadly.