A review by clarkness
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

3.0

Weird for the sake of being weird? Maybe. This collection of shorts really benefits from being a collection. It becomes clear by the end of the book that these are all characters that are fundamentally defined by their inability to communicate normally. They feel so out of place in everyday situations that it is at first heartbreaking and then oddly creepy and then bizarrely reassuring. The title speaks to these various feelings in a number of ways. The first interpretation is that July is reassuring her characters that they do belong in society and quieting their fears. The alternate interpretation is far more unsettling: you are so fucked up that the only place you belong is collected with these other rejects. I think that both of these interpretations go a long way towards explaining how we all feel depending on the day.