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A review by labyrinth_lit
All Fours by Miranda July
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
4.0
Overall, All Fours is about desire and freedom. Books like this should be their own genre, and they’re exactly what I like to read. Weird, artsy, middle-aged women who still don’t quite have it all figured out. A woman who makes unconventional decisions — but why not? What else should she be doing in this world? Of course, it’s confusing. Marriage, love, lust, all the feelings that can happen so abruptly in the most mundane or absurd of circumstances yet change everything.
Our heroine is obsessive, questioning her own reality (or sanity?) — but she knows it’s impossible to evade her own thoughts and feelings. How can one compromise when there is so much work to be done, so much life to experience? All of this while reckoning with motherhood, menopause, her work, and the mess of life. Frank yet poetic and sexy, the book reads like you’re talking with your best friend and she really, really gets it.
Our heroine is obsessive, questioning her own reality (or sanity?) — but she knows it’s impossible to evade her own thoughts and feelings. How can one compromise when there is so much work to be done, so much life to experience? All of this while reckoning with motherhood, menopause, her work, and the mess of life. Frank yet poetic and sexy, the book reads like you’re talking with your best friend and she really, really gets it.