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All Fours by Miranda July
4.0

It didn't take long to become riveted by this story of a premenopausal woman's divergent, long-mapped and short-lived trip from L.A. to New York. The consuming passions and pains of midlife are laid bare here, and a lot of things addressed or at the least alluded to that a lot of people simply don't talk about. I'm glad to leave it at that.

The stark sex scenes and sensuality are clunky and honest as well. I enjoyed this woman's romantic foibles far more than, say, the joyless, preachy Sex & the City reboot that's been foisted upon us as TV viewers. This book is a lot more fun and joyful, too.

There are some excellent passages, sentences and turns of phrase throughout. I love how Miranda July writes and will read basically anything she delivers. I wanted to know the protagonist, and I wanted to stay in the motel suite that she sunk thousands of dollars into as well. Someone please re-create that, stat. I'm ready to check in.