No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories [Paperback]

Named a Top Ten Book of the Year byTime, the bestselling debut literary short story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author ofAll Fours,a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

InNo One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda 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, searching for connection amid loneliness and longing.

With great compassion and generosity, July reveals her characters’ idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives.No One Belongs Here More Than Youis a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel,The First Bad Man, was an instantNew York Times bestseller, and her 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 inThe Paris Review, Harper’s, andThe New Yorker,and she is also the author of the novelAll Fours,a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. In 2025 she was named one of the 100 most influential people byTimeand received a Guggenheim Fellowship. July lives in Los Angeles.No One Belongs Here More Than You
Reading Group Guide

Discussion Questions:
1. Many of the characters in Miranda July's stories are lonely, vulnerable and tentative, yet clearly the intent of the author is not to expose or ridicule them but to make them sympathetic to the reader. Are there characters in these stories who unexpectedly win your heart? Are there some whoslc(