All Fours Author:Miranda July 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 July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach t... more »o 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.« less
I really enjoyed this book. I love her writing style, I love how it entertains the idea that not every life and marriage need to be exactly the same, exactly what you see in cookie cutter lives shown on tv or online⦠maybe the fact that she's in a similar place in her life as I am has something to do with how much I enjoyed it. But I also just truly love her bold and fearless and honest writing style. That's a great word for this book. It is BOLD and it is fearless. It makes me feel like my life can be anything I want it to be.