Fight No More

Reviews

"[A] shimmering and brilliantly engaged collection." — Marisa Silver, New York Times Book Review

"Millet’s great virtue is her negative capability. She inhabits the thoughts of the young and the elderly, of the fortunate and the bereaved, and of deviants and crackpots with equal candor and conversational ease." — Wall Street Journal

"Superb…The collection is linked through characters that reappear (as relatives, friends, lovers) as the book progresses, showing the ways in which we are living in simultaneous dimensions of pain, betrayal and forgetting. Yet as bleak as their situations may get, there remains a thread of dark humor." — Los Angeles Times

"[Fight No More] is a novel about death disguised as a story collection about real estate, and it's alternately wrenching and hilarious, peaceful and joyful, so tender you almost can't bear it and so brutal you know that you can't." — NPR

"Irresistible … a sprawling, tender portrait of modern adults quietly trapped by their youthful aspirations." — Publishers Weekly

"Millet so readily shifts point of view—by turns she can be a snotty rich kid, a pedophile, and a lower-class cam girl striving to rise above her station. … A linked-story collection done right, with sensitive and complex characters each looking for a place to call home." — Kirkus (starred review)

"As Millet makes exceptionally potent use of the linked-stories form, her writing is razor-edged, her comedy at once caustic and compassionate, and her insights agile as she contrasts rich and poor, house and home, delusion and love. … [C]onfirms the evolution of this stellar author’s vital, caring, and audacious creativity and literary splendor." — Booklist (starred review)

"Hilarious and fantastical…. [T]he most original short story collection I’ve read in years." — Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm on KCRW