No One Belongs Here More Than You : Stories (Paperback)

from shawnr

Most of the stories in this collection feel a lot like her film project, Me and You and Everyone We Know. She is a literary "cute brute" who sometimes manages to create clever scenes that inject a slightly humorous innocence into otherwise dire circumstances. However, at other times it feels imma...

from plenilune

At its best, July's writing is beautiful, with finely wrought characters and excruciatingly honest details. At its worst, the characters begin to sound like one another, and that one person is someone you wouldn't want sitting next to you on the subway or local bus. The stronger stories ("Somethi...

from chrisblocker

The stories in Miranda July's collection No One Belongs Here More Than You tell of encounters and relationships outside the realm of what we, as readers, are often exposed to. Surprising is a good word for this collection. The characters and the situations we find them in are surprising to your a...

from sonyagreen

I would never mistake the writing in this book to be anyone's except Miranda July. I saw Me and You and Everyone We Know, so this book seemed to follow in the same style, only more depth and breadth. The writing style is like opening up my head and pouring the words onto my brain. By that, I mean...

from vegetrendian

Miranda July is fresh, interesting, and sometimes breathtakingly truthful. She is an artist of many media, and her latest foray is into short (often very short) fiction. I had seen and absolutely adored her film Me and You and Everyone We Know, and was excited to learn she had turned her hand to ...