Everything you need to understand or teach All Fours by Miranda July.
In Miranda July's novel All Fours, the 45-year-old unnamed narrator sets out on a cross-country drive from Los Angeles to New York, leaving her child and husband behind. Just 30 minutes into the drive, however, the narrator abruptly ends her journey and holes up in a dingy motel room in Monrovia. Her experiences hiding out here gradually change her perspective on love, sex, and aging. However, once she returns home to L.A., she struggles to reconcile her recent dreamlike experiences with her banal domestic reality. Written from the first person point of view, the novel explores themes including intimacy, freedom, and identity.
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