All Fours

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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.

Miranda Julys second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With Julys wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one womans 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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"Characteristically witty, startlingly intimate. . .This tender, strange treatise on getting out from the prefab structures of a conventional life is quintessentially July.Kirkus

A brilliant, sexy, funny, ludicrously entertaining primal scream of a coming-of-middle-age story Beyond-dazzling, eyes-wide-open fiction.Booklist, STARRED review

Hilarious, sexy, and wonderfully weird... a revelation.Publishers Weekly,STARRED review

There have been few works of contemporary fiction about menopause, and even fewer that are as erotic and funnyAll Fours is undeniably victorious. BookPage, STARRED review

"A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect.the bravery of All Fours is nothing short of riveting. Vogue

Author Bio

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 OConnor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harpers, and The New Yorker. July lives in Los Angeles.