Sep 29

Sep 29 All Fours

About the book

Author: Miranda July
Publisher: Riverhead

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My Review

Everyone was talking about this book even before it was nominated for the National Book Award, and it’s easy to see why. Miranda July has written the coming-of-age-in-perimenopause novel with manic sexual energy that the world didn’t even know it needed.

I liked this more than I expected to, given that I’m generally not a huge fan of messy characters OR infidelity. I’ll also admit that I thought it was just going to be another book about a sexually frustrated white mother/artist, and the first half did sort of feel that way. But I’m really glad I stuck with it because in the second half, the focus expands and it becomes about so much more — freedom and ageism and monogamous marriage and finding yourself via desire — in a way that actually managed to feel singular.

I’m probably going to think about this book for a long time, and I’ll be interested to see if it ends up winning the National Book Award!