No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories | 
| Author: Miranda July
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 4995
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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 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.
Not bad April 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's nothing terribly groundbreaking here, but a lot of it is quite good nonetheless. I was expecting something more superficial and self-aware, but that wasn't the case, thankfully. Many of the longer pieces were actually very good and very well-written, with compelling characters and narratives. "Something That Needs Nothing", for example, was surprisingly moving and touching, as was "Birthmark", and the last story (the name of which escapes me).
Some of the shorter pieces were quite dark, like "The Man on the Stairs" and "The Shared Patio", and the nicely absurd "Swim Lessons", which veers into Barthelme territory, successfully. There are a few that don't work, however, mostly because they're not memorable or are just plain uninspired, but the good ones are good enough to overcome this.
 I am so glad I did not actually buy this book.... March 30, 2008
8 out of 18 found this review helpful
I was very much looking forward to reading this collection of stories, after hearing some good things about it and the author. I first checked it out from the library, before purchasing it. I was very disappointed after the first story, but kept going. Not only was the writing pretentious and often cliched, but the characters were terrible. Their decisions and thought processes were such that they seemed almost inhuman, impossible to relate to or understand. Maybe I possess more emotional attunement than others, but who in their right mind would do nothing when the person beside them becomes unconscious after a seizure? Ms. July has some potential as a writer, but it seems that she needs to leave behind pretentious hipster posturing and put some meaning and humanity into her writing.
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