All Fours - A Novel

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life

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

All Fours has spurred a whisper network of women fantasizing about desire and freedom. . . . It s the talk of every group text." The New York Times

All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible. The Cut

A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life . . . Deeply funny and achingly true. LA Times

July s novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining , deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I ve ever read. New York Magazine

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 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 aliv e.

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I found myself reading All Fours in solitude, because as I read I d started making sounds that were recognizably laughter but were also expulsions of heartbreak and what I ll call a cleansing sorrow. If the United States had the good sense to name national treasures, I d nominate Miranda July. Michael Cunningham, author of Day

"A giddy, bold, mind-blowing tour de force by one of our most important literary writers." George Saunders, Booker-Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo

"Profound and bawdy and deeply human, a brilliant work of art from a completely blown-open and fearless mind." Emma Cline, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest

"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

"A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect .the bravery of Vogue

"An irreverent and brilliantly touching story of a woman's quest for freedom." Oprah Daily

[July] altered my ideas of what kinds of stories were possible something Sally Rooney and I have in common. In her second novel, July brings her singular brand of sardonic melancholia and wide-eyed wisdom to bear on this tale of a semi-famous middle-aged artist who decides to take a left turn from the left turn she had already planned. Electric Literature

This is a gut-punch of a novel, a must-read for every woman nearing or over forty, confronting the malaise of midlife, fertility, marriage, and menopause, packaged in July s delirious style. LitHub