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Nightbitch
- Author
- Rachel Yoder
- Narrator
- Cassandra Campbell
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 22 July 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Contemporary fantasy / Low fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Gender studies: women and girls, Feminism and feminist theory
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING AMY ADAMS
Are you looking for a book with bite?
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
Critics Review
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Outrageous, gritty, smart, fun
Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
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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.
Observer
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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
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A deliciously untamed satire on mothering and collapsed ambition... Yoder's descriptions of wild self-release are thrilling.
Financial Times
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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.
Guardian
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For anyone raging at the patriarchy, Nightbitch is a brilliant read.
Stylist
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Feral, unholy... Nightbitch is an incredible feat.
Carmen Maria Machado, author of IN THE DREAM HOUSE
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Graceful, funny and unnerving as hell.
Jenny Offill, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION and WEATHER
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Joyfully demented... I tore through it. This is going to be massive.
Lisa McInerney, author of THE RULES OF REVELATION
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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
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 4.0
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Certainly not the kind of book I am used to read, so it's really personal. There definitely were parts that I didn't feel comfortable with, and some too messy are not thought out in a way that was satisfying in the end. However, others were real masterpieces, with excerpts that could be a thesis. It made me forget who I was and took me in so many other places and feelings that I won't forget this read.
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Details
- Author
- Rachel Yoder
- Narrator
- Cassandra Campbell
- Duration
- 8 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 July 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473592971
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Contemporary fantasy / Low fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Gender studies: women and girls, Feminism and feminist theory
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING AMY ADAMSAre you looking for a book with bite?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
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