A colony of roaches lives in harmony with the human couple who share their apartment; when the tempestuous woman hurls meals against the wall, there is food for all. But one day she disappears. Her compulsively tidy successor has the kitchen redone; cracks and holes are sealed, and all food is stored in impenetrable containers. The colony is threatened with starvation. Numbers (his name derives from the Bible, where he grew up) leads his peers in an intricate yet costly campaign to try to drive her out and save themselves.

"One of those brilliant allegorical novels that comes along once in a lifetime and haunts you forever." Bizarre

"Shades of Kafka, Swift, and Don Marquis. Daniel Evan Weiss has written an appealing, often mordant satire about the urban condition… Have I neglected to mention that Daniel Evan Weiss's unusual novel is also dark and erotic in addition to being clever and charming… If you're a roach, this book is positively steamy!" The New York Times Book Review

"Even funnier than Kafka's Metamorphosis, and manages to touch just as many social and metaphysical bases… an uncannily sharp analysis of modern manners and neuroses." The Times (London)

"Until now no author had ever beaten Kafka at his own metaphysical game… The Roaches Have No King isn't just amazingly funny, it's the sickest, most imaginative and complex novel since Patrick Suskind's Perfume… An implausible, hilarious, and beautifully written tale." Vox

"The Roaches Have No King is the genuine, endangered article: shocking, inventive, sometimes downright repulsive and very smart. Funny, in short. I loved it. I laughed out loud on the first page." The Sunday Oregonian

"Daniel Evan Weiss' fast-paced, richly inventive, floor-level fable of a cockroach's quest for a promised land of slovenliness, The Roaches Have No King warns us of the even greater dangers attendant upon eating what you read." Bloomsbury Review

"The human characters Numbers [the roach] manipulates are&hellp; wittily observed upon in this sly, enchanting novel. The prose sparkles with energy throughout, as the narrative scuttles between high philosophy and low comedy." The Insider

"Moby Dick for the millennial mindset." Wired

"It takes a writer with great skill and a lot of humor to make cockroaches appealing protagonists, and Weiss has both." Los Angeles Reader

"Villainously crude and delightful." Mail on Sunday