No One Belongs Here More Than You
Ratings40
Average rating3.5
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Ratings40
Average rating3.5
**Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and writer.**
In *No One Belongs Here More Than You*, Miranda 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 her characters’ 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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Quirky and weird. At times, too much for my taste, but when I was in the mood for such things it hit the spot.
Human yearning for affection and validation is a relatable topic again and again. The short stories are very much gorgeous in their sadness, but on occasion they flip from pathetic characters to reprehensible ones: “The Sister” (about one man into teenage girls and one into the other man, who leads him on with the promise of a teen sister and feeds him xtc to get him in his bed) made me sick to my stomach to an extent that I can't remember any book doing, which I suppose isn't the worst compliment I could give. Beyond that, topics like sex work and deformity aren't necessarily tackled as well as race and sexuality, so less than perfect in terms of woke points, which is still more than we can expect from most literature.
Decent story collection as a whole. Full of cringe, awkward, desperate characters and situations because that is what Miranda July is all about. “Majesty,” “Something that Needs Nothing” and the closing “How to Tell Stories to Children” were the standouts for me.
