What people are saying.

  • "In Shilo Niziolek’s arresting memoir, Fever, she invites the reader to wander with her around the meaning of desire. Told in a lyric essay, where paragraphs rub up against each other, leaving empty rooms of thought, the book has a ghostly presence. Niziolek writes like a hawk circling its prey: writing about her body as something in opposition to herself:

    — Alexis David, The Compulsive Reader

  • “Part bisexual awakening, part chronic illness memoir, Fever by Shilo Niziolek delivers a brutal, heartfelt recounting of the mostly-inner life of a queer woman whose body continuously betrays her. Told in untitled, fragmented vignettes, the book spans decades, reflecting on Niziolek’s past abusive relationship, addictions, her current partner, and her chronic health conditions."

    — Heather Domenicis, Sudress Reads

  • "Fever has expanded in my brain to fill whatever room it can find. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the way that Niziolek refracts queer yearning; it’s something more complicated than simply missing or wanting, it’s about an added contradictory layer of desire that either pulls us away from what we love or pulls us back towards what we tried to leave behind. Not just wanting, but wanting to want. Inhabiting a body at odds with itself, inhabiting her own dreams and fantasies almost vicariously, tangling together violence and betrayal and injury and illness, this book lends itself well to comparisons with In the Dream House or Bluets or 300 Arguments. "

    — Yashwina Canter, Autostradde