The Four Spent the Day Together

The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus is out now, published October 7, 2025.

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The Four Spent the Day Together

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The Four Spent the Day Together Release Date: October 7, 2025

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โ€œThe intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensableโ€ฆI read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humor, too.โ€ โ€”Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake

An unforgettable new novel from the โ€œpowerfully originalโ€ (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) author of the cult classic I Love Dickโ€”a stark, witty journey into a fractured, violent America, culminating in the investigation of a teenage murder on Minnesotaโ€™s Iron Range.

On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called โ€œmeth community,โ€ the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned.

At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house theyโ€™d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Locked into a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesotaโ€”between the art world and the urban poverty of Paulโ€™s addiction therapist jobs, the rural poverty of the icy, depressed Iron Rangeโ€”Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the brutality and despair surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagersโ€™ lives, Catt is led back to the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut.

Written in three linked parts, The Four Spent the Day Together explores the tensions of unclaimed futures and unchosen circumstances in the age of social media, paralyzing interconnectedness, and the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor.

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