All Fours by Miranda July

Hello,

Sebastian Barry's Days Without End scored a solid 7.5/10 last night at The Roundhouse.

After putting it to the vote, in December we will be going for All Fours by Miranda July.

Of the book, Amazon writes:
"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey."
— https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Fours-Miranda-July/dp/1838853448/

a review, according to The Guardian:
"July is part of a generation of novelists seeking new forms for midlife – whether it’s “hot-flush noir”, or the plotless, evacuated voice of Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy. The classic menopause novel remains Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark, another story where a woman abandons her own life and discovers new forms of rage and lust. Lessing’s novel of dark regeneration had life and death stakes, as July’s does. July’s gains added freight from her deep commitment to autofiction across mediums. Because of her film-making and performance art, July exists three-dimensionally for us in ways other narrators don’t. She’s made art out of herself dancing, crying, kissing. Added to this are the literal echoes of her life: she, too, has a semi-estranged husband and non-binary child; even her dead mother and aunt are referenced in the acknowledgments."
— https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/16/all-fours-by-miranda-july-review-larger-than-life

Can't go wrong then, can we?

Make sure you have read the book and bring a suggestion for the Group to read ahead of the February meeting for us all to vote on.

£1.50 fee is to help with the organiser's meetup.com costs.

Bring your pub money but you don't have to bring a copy of the book.

Best wishes,

David