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Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

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.

Carmen Maria Machado, author of IN THE DREAM HOUSE

Graceful, funny and unnerving as hell.

Jenny Offill, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION and WEATHER

Joyfully demented... I tore through it. This is going to be massive.

Lisa McInerney, author of THE RULES OF REVELATION

I could not love a novel more than Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch. It's such a uniquely brilliant book... magical, dark, and funny.

Kevin Wilson, author of NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Touches on a kaleidoscope of themes, from female rage to the loss of self that accompanies motherhood, all of it undergirded by feral, ferocious scenes... Unforgettable.

Mad, heartfelt, very funny, and unexpectedly charming.

The most original book I've read in ages; blistering, enraged and very funny.

An electric work by an ingenious new voice, this is one to devour.

Stylist’s summer cult breakout

At home full-time with her two-year old son while his father travels for work, a woman finds herself struggling with solitude, monotony and exhaustion. If she has to manage one more bedtime alone, she fears she will lose her mind. So far, so familiar, you might say? But one night, a strange metamorphosis occurs... 
 
Written as a howl against biology, history and the patriarchy, Nightbitch uproariously explores how traditional structures of power and gender continue to shape our experiences of mothering. Outrageously enjoyable, deeply clever and joyfully subversive, it is a book about finding the freedom to love and live as we want and need, whatever form this takes.

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One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... 
 
At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind. 
 
Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice... 
 
Written as a howl against biology, history and the patriarchy, Nightbitch uproariously explores how traditional structures of power and gender continue to shape our experiences of mothering. Outrageously enjoyable, deeply clever and joyfully subversive, it is a book about finding the freedom to love and live as we want and need, whatever form this takes. 
 
'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' Bonnie Garmus, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 
 
'FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL' Jenny Offill 
 
'The spiritual successor to Angela Carter' Evening Standard 
 
© Rachel Yoder 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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

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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**.

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