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.

Contents:

The shared patio

The swim team

Majesty

The man on the stairs

The sister

This person

It was romance

Something that needs nothing

I kiss a door

The boy from Lam Kien

Making love in 2003

Ten true things

The moves

Mon plaisir

Birthmark

How to tell stories to children