Two novels of the moment—the film director and screenwriter Miranda July’s sparkly and funny All Fours; and the moody and emotional Don’t Be A Stranger, by Susan Minot—present middle-aged women sexually obsessed with unavailable younger men. The setup isn’t a punchline, and the stories aren’t particularly about age—it’s probably a triumph of feminism that we’ve moved past all that. Instead, both books are an icy plunge into an intense kind of sexuality that feels relevant in the modern era, and is expressive of modern dysfunction.
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