Room with view – Liberation
On all fours From Miranda July is one of those books that we close by having the impression of seeing the world differently, with the feeling that anything is possible. Finalist of the National Book Award and translated in 24 countries, it is the fourth book of the American, also director and performer. A character, whose life and work are one (his Instagram account is worth the detour for his videos as delusional as her).
The narrator, a woman approaching fifties, is bored in her existence of Desperate Housewife of a suburb of Los Angeles. Terrified by the first symptoms of the menopause, which she associates with a tragic disappearance of the libido, she lets herself be caught up in an unexpected event: a word slipped on the step of her door by a neighbor, signaling that « Someone would have taken pictures of the interior of his house with a telephoto lens ». Far from worrying, she says a few pages later that she « Hope since birth « .
Shortly after, she received a substantial sum of money for having seen one of her sentences taken up in an advertisement. She immediately reserved a room in a chic hotel in New York. Then she sends photos of her naked to her friends (« We send it regularly, with photos of our kids and our animals – one way like any other to keep in touch »), masturbates while waiting for the neighbor Brian to tell him more about the type who observes him with his telephotics
