All Fours by Miranda July
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from Los Angeles to New York. Shortly after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and becomes enmeshed in a midlife sexual awakening that has unintended consequences for everyone in her life. All Fours is the story of a woman who unapologetically reinvents her sexual, romantic, and domestic life, and does so with such wit, honesty, and vigor, that readers will feel transported into her world.
- Last updated: October 24, 2025
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This is a transcript of a question-and-answer session between the author Miranda July and the novel’s publisher Riverhead Books.
CBC culture writers Heather O’Neill and Jennifer Wilson discuss why this novel is resonating so widely.
This book is a tender, strange treatise on getting out from the “prefab structures” of a conventional life.
Biography from Penguin Random House’s website.
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The author and filmmaker explores dance, desire, mortality and transcendence on a wild auto-fictional journey.
In 'All Fours,' Miranda July tackles love, sex and reinvention in middle age.
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