No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
by Miranda July
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Author: Miranda JulyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN: 0743299396
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: Miranda July Is Simply Stunning...
Summary: 5 Stars
No One Belongs Here More Than You, is a collection of short stories from Miranda July. This is a really special book; quite possibly written by an alien intelligence. When I say alien - I don't mean foreign. I'm talking straight out of Andromeda. July is quirky and funny... and I mean funny ha-ha.
Obviously, Miranda July excels at turning the slight into the elaborate. Miranda's sixteen stories (of varying length) mimic the gaps typically edited out of other people's stories; but she's brave enough to leave in the embarrassing, the frightening, the harmless, the idiosyncratic, the intimate, the misunderstood, the possibly depraved, the remote, and even the sad.
One outstanding story is The Shared Patio. It first appeared in Zoetrope. July packs hundreds of details into these scant twelve pages; it feels like a lengthier story. The narrative involves Helena and Vincent Chang, plus an unnamed upstairs neighbor that works in printing. Vince suffers an unexpected but mild epileptic seizure on the patio.
Next up is Majesty. It was unpublished until appearing in this compilation. This yarn concerns a middle-aged woman who works for QuakeKare in Sacramento; she also has reoccurring dreams about a mega quake, and an obsession with Prince William. The story also stars her promiscuous younger sister, and a neighbor whose dog has run away.
Even though readers may find The Sister to be offensive in nature, I admit it has a strong ending. Our anonymous protagonist works with Victor Caesar-Sanchez at Deagan Leather in Richmond. One day Victor invites him to meet his sister at an AIDS benefit. A misunderstanding arises between them after he mixes Ecstasy with beer.
Best of all these stories? That would be Something That Needs Nothing, which previously appeared in Bridge and The New Yorker. This story concerns two teenaged girls (one named Pip) who move to Portland after high school, and their budding sexual relationship. When Leanne, Tammy, and finally Kate, interfere with the pair, the romance dwindles.
Endearing to me was Making Love in 2003, which first saw print in The Paris Review. This story chronicles the travails of a would-be novelist in search of publication; this woman also mated with a shadow entity at fifteen. Stealing her college adviser away from his wife seems to be her current plan of attack.
Let me say, Ten True Things is another fine previously unpublished story. It features Dana - secretary to accountant Rick Marasovic - who is taking a beginning sewing class at the adult education center in order to approach Ellen; Ellen happens to be Rick's wife. Dana and Ellen flirt with each other, which leads to a tte--tte.
Of the sixteen stories here, Mon Plaisir is the strangest. A married woman gets her long hair cut short, shops for shoes, visits her therapist. She's unhappy with her marriage to Carl, who is Buddhist. This woman seeks refuge in a stint as a movie extra due to her dissatisfaction; shortly thereafter she divorces Carl.
Next to perfect is The Birthmark, which also appeared in The Paris Review. In this chronicle, a sorority girl has corrective laser surgery to remove a port wine stain from her face. After surgery, she entices a man to marry her. Oddly enough, she misses the large birthmark; until it mystically reappears fifteen years later.
Great artists are thieves; stealing like magpies. July has stolen my heart with her delicate writing - therefore I adore the wench. If you buy this spectacular book, you'll fall in love with her too. No One Belongs Here More Than You has a misleadingly plain cover, but it's the best book of 2007 by far.
Some of the shorter pieces (that I haven't concentrated on) are startling. They include The Man on the Stairs, which debuted in Fence; plus This Person, which debuted in Bridge; also It Was Romance, which bowed in Harvard Review; and The Boy from Lam Kien, which melted my heart with human kindness. Watch this writer; she's a woman on the verge!
Summary of No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
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.Short Stories Books
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