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No One Belongs Here More Than You

By Miranda July

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| Paperback | 9781847671165

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No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July 205pp, Canongate, £9.99 Picking up Miranda July's first book, you can't help wondering whether her apparently unstoppable success is simply a triumph of marketing over substance. She has all the right ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Miranda July has cultivated a quirky “indie” persona that’s won her an enthusiastic following in the independent film and art worlds, and now she’s writing fiction — her first book is a collection of stories called “No One Belongs Here More Than You. ... (read full critics)

nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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Soft, delicate, and yet powerful...unusual stories told through the eyes of a sensitive and imaginative artists as Miranda July is. Recommended.

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Zugi ☯ said on Dec 4, 2008 | Add your feedback

Miranda July's style is very evident, and shows throughout her film "Me And You And Everyone We Know" and very much here, in her short-story collection.
I feel as though I could easily have become irritated by her characters, where the main person often attains the same view as she, seemingly over ... (continue)

Miranda July's style is very evident, and shows throughout her film "Me And You And Everyone We Know" and very much here, in her short-story collection.
I feel as though I could easily have become irritated by her characters, where the main person often attains the same view as she, seemingly over and over again. In some way. On the other hand, try and find a truly versatile writer, in that sense. And there are a lot more positives than negatives while reading this, put it that way.
July does know how to write compellingly and in-depth, which I think is often hard when it comes to short-stories. These pieces vary in length, from two pages to something twentyish. The plots vary from story to story and often relate to basic human needs. Love, sex, money, work, friendship. Not in a corny, Oprah-would-love-this way, but rather in quirky ones, more emotive than intellectual. I can't really pigeon-hole this.
Quite short, I'll say this is recommendable for all.

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Niklas Pivic said on Dec 31, 2010 | Add your feedback

No one belongs here more than you. - Miranda July
Quirky and unique, so often in literature corresponds to 'without substance'. Not so in the case of Miranda July, and certainly not so in this short story collection. I would not have known of this book except that i had seen You, me, and ... (continue)

No one belongs here more than you. - Miranda July
Quirky and unique, so often in literature corresponds to 'without substance'. Not so in the case of Miranda July, and certainly not so in this short story collection. I would not have known of this book except that i had seen You, me, and everyone we know, a movie written, directed by (she is truly incredible with children performing), lead acted in, edited, and promoted by Miranda July. July's clear-eyed stare is carried over here to her fiction. Her characters have their simple, often quixotic everyday life becoming their reason for being and vice versa. The profound and the arbitrary simple existence become one. Her characters spring to lives of happiness and wellness and connection even when and sometimes in spite of challenge and misery and hardship. I really hope Ms. July plans a single longer work so that instead of short visits we can all stay a while with her people.
Another good modern short story collection is Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer. These stories like July's are fresh, each standing out and grabbing your attention, but often much darker, with people leading themselves astray by there own narrowness of vision. This book also shares similarity to July's with it's range and change of pace.
And still another good collection is Tumble Home by Amy Hempel. I found this collection quite striking, and yet as my recollection has it falling somewhat into the correspondence with quirky i mentioned above. Certainly to be recommended, Hempel is known for her style and has a strong following.
Interesting how these three female short story authors came to my mind together. I've thought and can only think of one man, who has written a modern collection similar. But i'll save him for another time.
By the way it's true => No one belongs here more than you.

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Jukka Keller said on Oct 24, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Not as good as I thought it would be, maybe it's just not the kind of books I like.

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W.S. said on Oct 28, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback