No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can’t see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees”
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Miranda July’s bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection – winner of the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
Winner of the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
‘Blisteringly good’ Guardian
In her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives, Miranda July reveals how a single moment can change everything. Whether writing about a middle-aged woman’s obsession with Prince William or an aging bachelor who has never been in love, the result is startling, tender and sexy by turns. One of the most acclaimed and successful short-story collections, No One Belongs Here More Than You confirms Miranda July as a spectacularly original, iconic and important voice today.
“Blisteringly good”
guardian
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“There’s beauty and tenderness here as well as great wit and, like the best stories, a delicious sense of the unexpected”
metro
“A stunning collection … from a wonderfully quirky and highly original writer”
venue
“July’s short fiction is quirky and self-consciously postmodern in style … The best of her stories adds a depth of emotional truth which can persuade you to believe in her most oddball worlds.”
Helen Chappell
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“Surprising, amusing and touching … they’ll fill you with a renewed sense of wonder at the world”
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Miranda July
Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker and artist. Her most recent book is The First Bad Man, a novel. July’s collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s, and the New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. In 2020 she debuted her third feature film, Kajillionaire. July lives in Los Angeles.
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