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All Fours
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I can’t stop thinking about this book. Nearly every woman/femme over 40 that I know is in what feels like a subterranean death-struggle with themselves, meditating on monogamy and meaning, bodily autonomy and dashed expectations, looking at the second half of life with both a fierce yearning and a sense of certain despair. July gives voice and shape to this outsizing struggle and offers a kind of hope (in art, in sex and desire, inside our bodies!) without taking her unflinching gaze off the reality of loss, without succumbing to the false hope of answers.
The novel also invites us into the secret plush pink motel room of Erotics for the No-Longer-Young, to get weird and real inside it, to learn about all its delusion and ridiculousness, all its sacred and humble and profane, creating a different way to look at desire, hidden inside the old, ugly, boring claptrap ways.
Oh and it’s the only book that’s ever made me cry because of dog shit, and it’s hot and funny, too.
The novel also invites us into the secret plush pink motel room of Erotics for the No-Longer-Young, to get weird and real inside it, to learn about all its delusion and ridiculousness, all its sacred and humble and profane, creating a different way to look at desire, hidden inside the old, ugly, boring claptrap ways.
Oh and it’s the only book that’s ever made me cry because of dog shit, and it’s hot and funny, too.
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August 27, 2023
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August 27, 2023
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September 3, 2023
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Finished Reading
December 10, 2024
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F**k! Now I MUST read this!
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Where did you find it? Everywhere seems to say it’s available in May earliest�
Preorder done! Gonna be a long 2 1/2 months for us but got a feeling it will be worth the wait
How have so many people read this in advance? It doesn’t release until May 14. Are all’yall getting advanced copies?
Leaving a five star review of your review. 
I would love to interview you for a New York Times article I am writing on this book! I found this review very interesting! Want to email me at [email protected]. Thanks!
Yes, your review is perfect.
This review perfectly articulates what this book is. I keep trying to describe it and failing. Your first two sentences fully capture it.
This is THE best review.
"Nearly every woman/femme over 40 that I know is in what feels like a subterranean death-struggle with themselves, meditating on monogamy and meaning, bodily autonomy and dashed expectations, looking at the second half of life with both a fierce yearning and a sense of certain despair." love this so much and yes, so true
Incredible review, I couldn't have said it better myself. BRAVO.
I read aloud from All Fours and I read aloud from your review. Bravo! You said it so well. Thank you.
As a 48 year old woman and mother of one, there were so many things in this book that really spoke to me, but you summed it up perfectly
