"Paul Bergstraesser's slender and endlessly surprising novel is about the myriad ways the world grows remarkable when we attend to it closely. Funny, heartbreaking, and always off-kilter, THE LESS SAID reminds us that 'dying is unspeakable, but so too is living' and, if we're lucky, we get to spend some improbable and accompanied years straining toward language for both."
"In THE LESS SAID, Paul Bergstraesser conjures a dying man. This dying man, P, conjures another man, Edward Sipe, who perhaps is P, or better yet, his dance partner. And THE LESS SAID is a dance, one in which not only our great loves but our daily routines are given movement and shape. What kind of dance? A kickline, of course. Or a street dance, or quick two-step made-up while washing dinner dishes. THE LESS SAID unfolds, out of death, glittering possibilities."
"In THE LESS SAID, more is communicated. Everything is here in this remarkable short novel--illness, loneliness, love, family, storytelling, memory, and parking lot design. With great wit, precision, and lyricism, Paul Bergstraesser mines the granular details of one man's journey for urgent and eloquent questions not only about the way we die but also, in the end, the way we live."
"THE LESS SAID counters the very real pall of death with soul and wit. It parries pain with humor, grief with irreverence. Beautifully written, boldly imagined, Paul Bergstraesser's inventive novel deftly bears us through its narrator's final days with whip-smart intelligence and big, big heart."