No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

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As a result, you can almost hear July speaking through her characters, a sort of series of monologues. Her performances were successful; she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old.

Okay, I take that back, of course that’s appealing to people, have I never watched porn or "Charmed"?You're saying: this moment is important enough to be recorded exactly, in sight and sound, for posterity. Another witnesses a neighbor having a seizure, and rather than rush for help, lays her head on his shoulder and takes a nap. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals her characters' idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives.

I was worried they'd be too whimsical, but actually the feeling I get while reading is sort of of the opposite -- bored and oppressed and kind of grossed out and tired but not in an interesting way. And the man who paid this person two thousand dollars to have sex with him three times when this person was very broke.July's stories startle us at every turn, sometimes by their sexual frankness, sometimes by passages of impossibly lush eloquence .