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Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, The First Bad Man, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. More about this author >
From the publisher:
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.
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 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman.
All Fours is a blisteringly funny, movingly off-kilter novel that never goes where the reader expects it to go, but rather leaps full-force into the verboten landscape of the perimenopausal body and, there, makes extraordinary discoveries. Both deadpan and sexy, Miranda July’s book thrums with a narrative voice as unstoppable as a speeding train and sentences that crackle with electric wit.
