PositiveThe Globe and MailMaksik...finds himself in a...mire of questions about authenticity and authorial licence. The issue seems to be that You Deserve Nothing puts the veil of fiction on events that are not only true, but ones that might be deemed morally objectionable ... Maksik chose to write in the voices of all three characters – Silver\'s, Gilad\'s and Marie\'s – which provides the novel with a richly layered sense of diversity and narrative ambiguity; it is also this choice that has Maksik\'s detractors up in arms about appropriation of voice ... It is absurd to place a work of art under an exclusive banner marked either fact or fiction. Novelists are constantly fictionalizing their lives; we either recognize ourselves in their words or we don\'t. Indeed, for many fiction writers, life and art are indistinguishable. In this reviewer\'s opinion, it matters little how a work is categorized; what matters more is that we pay attention to it.
