ARC gifted by the publisher & prhaudio

A semifamous artist embarks on a cross-country road trip from LA to NY but settles down in a motel 20 minutes after leaving her husband and child.

When most books featuring women over 40 are concerned with their roles as mothers/wives "past their primes," ALL FOURS turns this "mid-life crisis" inside out and explores the transformative power of one's desire. While not a romance in a traditional sense, there's something deeply romantic about July's prose in excavating the private moments that are deeply intimate, sometimes awkward, when a woman refuses to be flattened by her reproductive ability and chooses lust.

ALL FOURS is an intensely horny and contemplative book with a stream-of-consciousness writing style. It initially made me depressed about what the future has for me as a woman (not much but menopause