All FoursMiranda July (Riverhead Books), $29July’s second novel is a story that’s at once eminently relatable to women over 40 and utterly unique.
A mom and married artist plans to drive from LA to New York, where she’ll splash out on a stay at the Carlye and catch up with old friends and culture.
Instead, she makes a pit stop in a suburb an hour into her journey, rents a motel room that she lavishly redecorates, develops an intimate relationship with a young guy who works at Hertz and ultimately decides to blow up her life.
A finalist for the National Book Award, this gripping, hilarious read has rightfully been one of the year’s most talked about and influential books. Colored TelevisionDanzy Senna (Riverhead Books), $29The “Caucasia” author’s darkly comic tale about a struggling biracial novelist on the brink of making it in Hollywood — while she and her young family housesit for an old classmate who is already a top TV writer — is a quick but thought-provoking read.
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