#7. No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July
Publisher: Scribner
224 pages
$23.00

These stories are swift, aching, almost unbearably intense flares of emotion and lyrical language, sent out into the existential darkness of everyday life. July's characters are orphans and runaways and misfits, insecure, lost and lonely, but they do their best to find that last remaining scintilla of strength in each other, and in themselves.