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A review by corneliadolian
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
2.0
I liked some of the stories. I didn't get much out of others. And then there were the ones that creeped me out..
July's voice is very dispassionate (she is after all a hipster princess), which works sometimes, but can get a bit trying at other times. It's like seeing everything through a haze of Xanax and a plexiglass wall. It's happening in front of you, but you're completely disconnected and there are both physical and chemical barriers to getting connected. For all the types of relationships tackled in this collection, all the love and complexity supposedly there, all the human emotion the situations would elicit, it still very often lacks warmth. There's a lot of potential for warmth, but it mostly goes unrealized.
Anyway, she also has some really beautiful descriptions and some winning characters. Sometimes her prose floored me, but that's hard to sustain.
I liked: "How to Tell Stories to Children", "Majesty", "The Sister", "Birthmark" and "The Boy from Lam Kien".
July's voice is very dispassionate (she is after all a hipster princess), which works sometimes, but can get a bit trying at other times. It's like seeing everything through a haze of Xanax and a plexiglass wall. It's happening in front of you, but you're completely disconnected and there are both physical and chemical barriers to getting connected. For all the types of relationships tackled in this collection, all the love and complexity supposedly there, all the human emotion the situations would elicit, it still very often lacks warmth. There's a lot of potential for warmth, but it mostly goes unrealized.
Anyway, she also has some really beautiful descriptions and some winning characters. Sometimes her prose floored me, but that's hard to sustain.
I liked: "How to Tell Stories to Children", "Majesty", "The Sister", "Birthmark" and "The Boy from Lam Kien".