RaveThe New York Times Book Review...the canny and daring writer Lydia Millet is no sentimentalist, and in Fight No More, her new collection of linked stories, she explores the fragility and treachery of a place that can offer both solace and deception ... Millet’s boldly playful and intellectually charged body of work combines lightning bolts of emotional acuity, moments of precise poetry and subversively dark comedy along with investigations of existential ideas and real-world concerns ... Millet provides her characters with the desire to understand the fractures in their lives in a larger context ... shimmering and brilliantly engaged.
Jenni Fagan
PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewFagan’s novel balances the oncoming climate disaster with the human-scale stories of these characters, focusing especially on Stella, whose feelings about her sexual identity are refreshingly resolute...Stella’s intrepid and sometimes dangerous attempts at self-care, and her coming-of-age under the pressure of societal disapproval and global threat, are the emotional anchors of the narrative. The interior lives of the adults in the novel are not quite as precisely drawn.
