Why you need to read All Fours by Miranda July
Miranda July's second novel All Fours is now available, and our booksellers are desperate to share their excitement for this new title! Following a 45-year-old woman's unexpected journey of reinvention, All Fours has been described by the publisher as 'new and thrillingly, profoundly alive'.
Somehow not convinced? Read our staff thoughts below to see why you need to pick it up ASAP.
All Fours is one of the best books I have read in a very long time. It is completely bonkers, yet incredibly familiar. July captures something that is terrifying, yet exhilarating. As a person heading towards the Big M, this was a beautiful, messy and eye-opening tonic. She is nothing short of a genius.
– Rosalind McClintock is the head of marketing for Readings
All Fours is here, and it is everything you want and a whole lot more. This book is funny and crazy, full of sex and desire and interior design, and contains so many brilliant one-liners, blistering observational passages and surprising plot twists. All Fours is not for the faint heart or the closed mind, but thank goodness, because July is shaking up the status quo in ways that we desperately need.
– Alison Huber is the head book buyer for Readings
I love the idea that All Fours might be autofiction and Miranda July is wild enough to have done or almost done all of this! All Fours is wacky and wonderful, a segment of our Readings customers will be head over heels for this book. You know who you are.
– Lou Ryan is the manager of Readings Carlton
Funny, sexy and unputdownable! This story about a woman's midlife crisis captures the zeitgeist so perfectly I want to thrust it into the hands of everyone I know.
– Angela Crocombe is the senior buyer for Readings Kids
Caveat: at the time of writing this, I’m only halfway through reading All Fours. But as a woman at roughly the same stage of life as its audacious protagonist, I’m confident that The New York Times was right when it declared that Miranda July has written the first great perimenopause novel.
Beginning with the still rare cultural trope of a female driven road trip, this journey to the outskirts of Los Angeles and into the chaotic heartland of middle age is a wild ride. Every page had me nodding in too real, visceral recognition and laughing my head off.
– Joanna Di Mattia is a bookseller at Readings Carlton
