by Miranda July
Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank each of these people for their part in helping me make this book: Fiona Maazel, Rick Moody, Nan Graham, Sarah Chalfant, and Mike Mills.
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2007
by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
First published in the United States in 2007
by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
1230 Avenue of Americas, New York, NY 10020
This digital edition first published in 2008
by Canongate Books Ltd
Copyright © Miranda July, 2007
“The Shared Patio” was previously published in Zoetrope.
“The Man on the Stairs” was previously published in Fence.
“This Person” was previously published in Bridge.
“It Was Romance” was previously published in Harvard Review.
“Something That Needs Nothing” appeared in Bridge and The New Yorker.
“The Boy from Lam Kien” was originally published by Cloverfield Press.
“Making Love in 2003” appeared in The Paris Review.
“The Moves” appeared in Tin House.
“Birthmark” was previously published in The Paris Review.
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84767 392 3
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