All Fours

Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, The First Bad Man, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O Connor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper s, and The New Yorker. July lives in Los Angeles.

Praise for All Fours:

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

There have been few works of contemporary fiction about menopause, and even fewer that are as erotic and funny All Fours is undeniably victorious. BookPage, 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

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