No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories | 
 enlarge | Author: Miranda July
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 5690
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0743299418
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780743299411
ASIN: 0743299418
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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Product Description
Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.
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 Funny, witty and, sometimes, depressing stories July 25, 2008
This is one of the greatest short story collections I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I'd compare Miranda July to another great American Writer, Raymond Carver, but it would be unfair for both. Just keep in mind that Miranda July has suddenly become on of my top writers. I fully recommend this book.
All the Lonely People July 25, 2008
Miranda July's funny, sad, startling collection of short stories won the Frank O'Connor in 2007. It comes with different coloured covers so that you can coordinate your copy with your clothes. I bought a bright green copy which clashed a bit with my wardrobe.
Often bordering on the bizarre, these 16 stories of lonely misfits, injured by life, aching for love and acceptance would really hurt to read, but the characters are survivors, buffered by their rich fantasy lives.
The protagonist of Shared Patio longs to write for a magazine advice column and the story is sprinkled with offbeat advice. She builds fantasies around her neighbour which she gets close to fulfilling when he has an epileptic fit on the shared patio one day.
In Swim Team a woman coaches a swimming team comprising old people in her apartment and without the aid of water (although she does provide them with bowls when they need to practice breathing exercises!)
A woman dreams of an erotic encounter with Prince William in Majesty and awake plots how she might meet him.
In The Sister A lonely man is set up on a date with a colleague's sister who never turns up, and turns out never to have existed. Perhaps it doesn't matter in the end.
It's hard to pick a favourite, but Something That Needs Nothing is a love story that broke my heart. This Person is about how we will always go on sabotaging ourselves is as perfect a short short story as they come, and you can read the whole thing here.
I wonder it everyone reading the book will find themselves reflected in this book. Do you feel as lonely, as out of sync with the world, as uncertain as July's characters?
It's frightening to admit, but I do sometimes. I really do! And if you say yes too, I think I will look at you oddly (as of course you will have to look at me). Maybe this is the great unsayable - we aren't as together as we'd like the world to think we are.
But when you look at Miranda July, who successful, young and beautiful, everything her characters are not, you wonder how the hell she channels these voices!
I feel like turning the book over and beginning it all over again. This is a collection that is staying on my writing desk to stir up my slothful own muse.
Raw, engaging, mundane, and much more July 9, 2008
I believe that to read a book, any book, and understand it to the point of full comprehension, one must be in the right time, place, and emotional limbo.This book is definitely one of the best books I have EVER read, each story more raw then the last, and so extremely broad that you yourself will get lost in it, and feel like you are a character, a quiet one, one that stands and watches it all unravel with no say or effect but there nonetheless. If you get what I'm saying GET this book, it will change you.
 Not quite there yet July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These are charming, but ultimately forgettable stories. The book feels a little like the adventures of one character (who is definitely female), although there are many different characters who feature throughout. I didn't get a really distinct sense of voice for each character, nor was I carried into their worlds as completely as I'd hoped to be. Some of the stories felt a little contrived, or like they were trying too hard to be quirky.
I'm going to go watch the film, instead.
Honestly not very good May 7, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read an article about Miranda July in a magazine last summer and ordered this book because it seemed like something I would enjoy. I guess my expectations were high. I was hoping for something original and thought-provoking; instead it was weak, meaningless, and strange just for the sake of being strange. I did enjoy one story, the one where the main character is at the party thrown for her by everyone she has ever known in her life (I cannot remember the title for the life of me), but that was the only one that stuck out. All of the other stories were seemingly pointless. I am very shocked that so many people enjoy this book; I think it is terribly overrated.
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