Fluid Elites

At first, the constant them-theying of a small boy in Miranda July’s All Fours is grating but it actually plays an important role in the narrative. The main character “doesn’t believe” in the sex binary but the sex binary doesn’t care. It comes for her in all its physiological glory.

The novel presents the best portrayal I’ve ever seen of the egotistical, irresponsible, self-aggrandizing, fluid and self-righteous cultural and political elites of the Western world. It’s scary because they are scary but the novel answers the question of what kind of people it takes to dismantle national borders, defund police, promote racial hatred, and conduct bizarre experiments on small children.

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  1. It is really weird to me that all the positive reviews of this book don’t mention how strange her relationship with her child is, it feels like she has a toy robot at home, the child has zero personality. Similar to the husband. It felt creepy to me.

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