All Fours

All Fours

Miranda July

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.25Characters: 4.13Plot: 3.5
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The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life A semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.


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    She seems so incredibly alone in her marriage...but it seems to be a self-imposed distance?

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  • Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 2.0
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    One of those “I said it was weird, I didn’t say you would like it” type of novels. I had no expectations going into this, but even if I did I couldn’t have anticipated where this story would take me. Even now, I don’t know how to describe it - part philosophical musing on menopause, aging as a woman, monogamy, domestic life and desire, part second coming of age story, part voyeuristic glimpse into the mind of an eccentric and emotionally driven woman. There’s no doubt Miranda July is exceptionally talented - this is worth the read for some of the one liners alone. There were some parts that seemed to meander aimlessly, but that’s the point - the journey is the destination. Worth sticking out!

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