Book description
In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing
the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her
increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the
PennySaver, the iconic classifieds booklet that reached everywhere and
seemed to come from nowhere. Who was the person selling the "Large
leather Jacket,, "? It seemed important to find out - or at least
it was a great distraction from the screenplay. Accompanied by
photographer Brigitte Sire, July crisscrossed Los Angeles to meet a
random selection of PennySaver sellers, glimpsing thirteen surprisingly
moving and profoundly specific realities, along the way shaping her
film, and herself, in unexpected ways. Elegantly blending narrative,
interviews, and photographs with July's off-kilter honesty and deadpan
humor, this is a story of procrastination and inspiration, isolation and
connection, and grabbing hold of the invisible world.
