All Fours (2024)

All Fours focuses on a 45-year-old woman who discovers she is going through the perimenopause. The unnamed protagonist in many ways resembles July herself, having a portfolio career of artistic ‘projects’ (not a ‘household name’ but clearly admired by many) and in a comfortable marriage, from which she has a nonbinary child. At the novel’s start she is in something of a creative lull and decides that to mix things up a bit (and against her normal character) she’s going to drive to a meeting across the country in New York, rather than flying. The journey doesn’t go entirely to plan.