On all fours

Acclaimed artist Miranda July debuts on Amarcord with a New York Times bestseller, translated by award-winning poet Bruna Beber.

On the eve of her forty-sixth birthday, a nearly famous artist decides to drive across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York, on a trip that would change her life forever. However, thirty minutes after saying goodbye to her husband and child, she pulls off the highway and checks into a motel. Within her four walls, a completely unexpected journey begins, and new ways of desiring and being emerge in unorthodox epiphanies.

"Nobody knows what's going on," the narrator confesses. And, even without knowing, she throws herself into this adventure and gropes for an unknown freedom. The journey that unfolds from there, though at times absurd or strange, is a true recreation of a woman's love, sex, and domestic life in the 21st century.

Miranda July writes with brutal honesty and a flair for the unusual. This makes this novel a wild and tragicomic narrative about growing up after forty. With echoes of autofiction and exposing a seductive vulnerability, On All Fours makes us fall in love with the possibility of new and beautiful destinies.

“ On All Fours has sparked a buzz among women who fantasize about desire and freedom [...]. It’s what everyone is talking about in their message groups.” – New York Times

“Larger than life: Writer and filmmaker Miranda July explores dance, desire, mortality and transcendence in a journey of wild autofiction.” – The Guardian

" On all fours, it took over my being. I started the book and put my life on hold until I finished reading the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible." – The Cut

“On All Fours is profound, raunchy, and utterly human, a brilliant work of art from an open and fearless mind.” – Emma Cline, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls