No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

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Miranda July is my hero. So I might have read her book with fanmode glasses on. Haha. This book is wonderful. A girl gives swimming lessons in her kitchen. A lesbian pseudo-couple provides their services to women so they can pay the rent. A secretary falls in love with the wife of her boss and stalks her. A woman contemplates about her lover while confronting an intruder. Events seem so ordinary and realistic in some stories, and fantastical and dream-like in others. What does transpire through all her stories is her unwavering eye for the delicateness of human emotion. Know that game kiss, slap, kill? It would be fun to apply this game to her characters, to kiss those wretched souls who live in fantasyland, slap off the apathy from some, and kill-- well, I don't want to kill anyone here, 'cept maybe for that scary intruder. If you like her movie, Me and You and Everyone We Know, or have been to her site- Learningtoloveyoumore.com, this book might be perfect for you, cause it's really not for everyone. It might be a bit too strange for others, and don't let that hot pink cover fool you into thinking these stories have happy endings, because most of them don't. All her stories do end unpredictably, sometimes realistically, sometimes too abruptly, and you end up feeling like you've just eavesdropped into someone's private affairs, only to learn that they know you've been listening all along.

What I think: 8.5 unicorns