In her second novel, All Fours (Riverhead Books-Penguin Random House, 2024), American author, film director, screenwriter, and actress Miranda July weaves an empathetic narrative about a woman in midlife who experiences a sexual awakening. An article in The Washington Post discusses the impact of July’s book and features commentary by Suzanne Leonard, Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Program Director for Gender and Cultural Studies.
Leonard appreciates July’s ability to connect with readers on a visceral level. As Leonard notes, “There’s a piece [in All Fours] for almost every well-educated White woman in this age range … There’s this one line that resonated incredibly with me: ‘So much of what I had thought of as femininity was really just youth.’”