The Blondes: A Novel

"Hazel, a graduate student who has been having an affair with her married professor, discovers her pregnancy and witnesses the beginning of an epidemic on the same terrifying day. The mysterious illness, in which blond women attack strangers with rabid ferocity before dying themselves, seizes the country, and Hazel struggles to get home in the midst of the madness. The Blondes is scary and deeply, bitingly funny — a satire about gender that kept me reading until 4 in the morning — and a fine addition to the all-too-small genre of feminist horror."