While reading this book, sometimes you want to look away, but instead you keep turning the pages like an addict. Why Miranda July’s new novel is exciting.
She’s giving herself this 45th birthday gift. A gift that has much bigger surprises in store for her than anyone else’s could have. The first-person narrator in Miranda July’s new novel, an artist with a husband and children and okay success, wants to drive from the West Coast to New York.
She doesn’t get much further than a motel, less than half an hour from her home. Instead of seeing New York, she will rediscover her sexuality and question her life with her husband and child. She will be blunt and open. Sometimes we will want to look away because of the embarrassment of others and the risk of accidents, but the voyeurs that we are, we continue to read all the more curiously.