Parul Sehgal on a new novel about a marriage in free fall.
And lately? Lately, our heroines can’t keep their hands off themselves. The signature sex act du jour might be the furtive solo session, at least according to new novels such as Miranda July’s “All Fours,” Eva Baltasar’s “Mammoth,” and Kimberly King Parsons’s “We Were the Universe.” “It’s not that I want to masturbate in the vestibule of the Tiny Toads gymnastics class, specifically,” the narrator of Parsons’s novel confesses—and yet.
Here the writing scalds and gives the appearance of holding nothing back. But key omissions are, in fact, central to its architecture. John’s version of events—his intentions and perspective—is entirely absent. Jane does not seem to entertain them, nor does Manguso. There is a strange lack of motive in the book. We receive blurry, shifting notions of why the couple act as they do: why they married, why they hurt each other.
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