ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Rachel Yoder cuts into the tissue of motherhood with her "every-woman" protagonist who is affectionately and repulsively referred to as Nightb*tch. Once a burgeoning artist, she now spends her days trapped in domesticity with an absent husband and a dictatorial toddler, growing more feral and animalistic in her yearning-teeth, tail and thirst for prey included. An excellent dissection of the unspoken pressures and desires felt by mothers-trying, alongside it's lead, to reconcile with both. Hailie Brown
For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood
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'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' BONNIE GARMUS, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'BRILLIANT' Stylist 'INCREDIBLE' Carmen Maria Machado
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
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Rachel Yoder cuts into the tissue of motherhood with her "every-woman" protagonist who is affectionately and repulsively referred to as Nightb*tch. Once a burgeoning artist, she now spends her days trapped in domesticity with an absent husband and a dictatorial toddler, growing more feral and animalistic in her yearning-teeth, tail and thirst for prey included. An excellent dissection of the unspoken pressures and desires felt by mothers-trying, alongside it's lead, to reconcile with both. Hailie Brown
Outrageous, gritty, smart, fun -- BONNIE GARMUS * 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. -- Lara Feigel * Observer * 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. * Elaine Feeney, author of AS YOU WERE * A deliciously untamed satire on mothering and collapsed ambition... Yoder's descriptions of wild self-release are thrilling. -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times * 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. -- AK Blakemore * Guardian *