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Book SynopsisNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick
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Library Journal Best Book of 2018
“Full of joys on every scale.” —NPR
Trade Review"[A] shimmering and brilliantly engaged collection." -- Marisa Silver - New York Times Book Review
"[Millet is] one of the funniest writers of American fiction, a rival of George Saunders, Paul Beatty, Nell Zink, and Donald Antrim.… You have the sense that Millet could easily bury us in her smartness but has instead cleaved to the characters she’s created and made her humor generously broad. These are accessible fictions." -- New York Magazine
"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
"The tales’ intersections are as intricate as L.A.’s freeways—but, unlike the 405 at rush hour, totally delightful." -- O, The Oprah Magazine
"Each new story swerves like a breathtaking drive through L.A., logical yet surprising.…
Fight No More takes the connected story model to a pure and higher form, creating a satisfying web that expands one character, one ZIP code, one housing situation at a time, to 13 tales that are each distinct and whole but form something daring in their entirety." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
