In suburban America, a stay-at-home mother unravels as isolation pushes her towards a shocking transformation.
Once an ambitious artist, the mother now spends her days caring for her young son while her husband travels for work. As her exhaustion and resentment build, she notices new instincts, new appetites, and a destabilising shift in her sense of self.
What begins as doubt hardens into something wilder. Her body changes. Her desires sharpen. In embracing the persona of ‘Nightbitch’ she confronts domestic confinement, creative frustration and the cultural expectations placed on women.
Blending the surreal with the intimate, this powerful novel of transformation and self-reclamation examines what is lost and what might be found when a woman refuses to remain obedient, grateful, and small.
'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' Bonnie Garmus
‘FERAL, UNHOLY... NIGHTBITCH IS AN INCREDIBLE FEAT’ Carmen Maria Machado
'BRILLIANT' Stylist
'I TORE THROUGH IT' Lisa McInerney
'FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL' Jenny Offill
'THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO ANGELA CARTER' Evening Standard
About the Author :
Rachel Yoder grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio. She holds MFAs from the University of Arizona (fiction) and the University of Iowa (creative non-fiction) and is a founding editor draft: the journal of process.
www.racheljyoder.com
Review :
Outrageous, gritty, smart, fun
Yoder's voice is precise and funny, pitch-perfect... This is a terrifically alive and imaginative tale... an important contribution to the engagement with motherhood that rightly dominates contemporary feminism.
I've been waiting my whole adult life for a read like this. Nightbitch is truly imaginative, utterly original, brave and brilliant - I devoured it.
A deliciously untamed satire on mothering and collapsed ambition... Yoder's descriptions of wild self-release are thrilling.
Yoder's commentary on the assorted neuroses of modern womanhood is graceful and coolly incisive... She infuses new life into the cold, furry flesh of the monstrous femme.
For anyone raging at the patriarchy, Nightbitch is a brilliant read.
Feral, unholy... Nightbitch is an incredible feat.
Graceful, funny and unnerving as hell.
Joyfully demented... I tore through it. This is going to be massive.
I could not love a novel more than Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch. It's such a uniquely brilliant book... magical, dark, and funny.
