It Chooses You
It Chooses You (Hardcover)
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Description
Working with photographer Brigitte Sire, July interviewed 13 "PennySaver" classified ad sellers to create portraits of their surprisingly moving, profoundly specific realities. July reveals her hilariously random and blindly faithful creative process as readers travel with her all over the city, combining narrative, interviews, and photographs. 208 pp.
About the Author
Miranda July is the author of No One Belongs Here More Than You, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Paris Review. July wrote, directed, and starred in the film Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her second film, The Future, was released this summer.
Praise for It Chooses You…
Voted a "Can't Miss Read for December 2011" by Oprah Magazine.
"July, an artist, writer, performer and film-maker who creates work 'about people trying to connect in one way or another and the importance of that' has moved from casual wondering to something substantive and extraordinary."
—Hermione Hoby, the Guardian