“Mr. Hill’s daring style is full of candied rewards.”—New York Sun

“With evocative, freewheeling prose (‘the run-on sentences that were her married life’), Hill…nimbly salvages one family's striving from an era of grasping and consumerism.” —Publishers Weekly

“[Hill] is audacious in experimenting with the sound and pace and rhythm of language to convey personality, mood, and social status….A witty, generous heartbreaking book.”—The Olympian

“Hill writes with velocity, rhythm, and wit, conveying a world of subtle emotions and social nuance in brilliantly syncopated inner monologues and staccato dialogue, creating a bravura and resounding performance….Hill has written a breakneck, wisecracking, tenderhearted, socially revealing portrait of an unusual early 1960s American marriage.”—Booklist

“[When All Is Said and Done] is truly the most enjoyable, evocative prose I’ve come across in new fiction in quite a while.” —Minneapolis City Pages A-List Picks

“From the first glorious sentence to its last astounding word, Robert Hill’s When All Is Said and Done is a treasure. The sophisticated wit and luxurious language of this brilliant novel weave a story of one family's complex heart and history and their journey through 1950s/60s suburban Connecticut and all its prejudices. Read this American saga and weep.”—Tom Spanbauer

“I read it in a single sitting—the writing is wonderful, rich, evocative and truly unique. Hill’s novel is strong for all that it does say, and all that it leaves to the reader’s imagination. There’s something poetic in the best of ways about the way that the lines and language unfold. This book reminds me of Cheever and Yates and a young Rick Moody.”—AM Homes

“What’s extraordinary about Robert Hill’s lyrical and lovely debut novel, When All Is Said and Done, is that he finds the poetry in ordinary, everyday life—marriage, family, work, pain, beauty, awe.”—Helen Schulman

“When All Is Said and Done is a fresh, high-velocity cry from the heart, showing that love is the rose and the thorn at once, and that Mr. Robert Hill has taken a running start into what they used to call the literary scene.” —Ron Carlson

“He is audacious in experimenting with the sound and pace and rhythm of language to convey personality, mood, and social status.”—The Olympian

“This is a witty, generous, heartbreaking book which seeks, as Dan says, “the common green in our beings” –and finds it.”—Kitsap Sun

“[When All is Said and Done] hits a homer with the first swing and holds one’s attention until the last out.”—The Sanford Herald