Book 178 of 2024: All Fours by Miranda July 

Rating: ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.

Now hear me out—I’m a big support of women’s wrongs. And this book was full of them. But I absolutely could not sympathize or find anything redeeming about the main character. She put herself into so many terrible situations where she made the absolute worst choices, and she seemed to blow up her life and her family stability for absolutely no reason other than the fact that she was sex-crazed and unsatisfied in all areas of her life. The novel was provocative and raunchy, but sometimes it seemed like the only point of the book was to be provocative and raunchy with no overarching themes or resonating points. The writing was poignant and there were some passages that I did enjoy. However overall this book was just uncomfortable, unrelatable, and unenjoyable.