Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder Audiobook

Written by Rachel Yoder
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged

8h52m

“A high wire act of a novel that expertly balances the uncanny and quotidian moments of early motherhood. Yoder’s writing is graceful, funny and unnerving as hell.” (Jenny Offill, New York Times best-selling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation)

In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she’s turning into a dog.

One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else….

An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler’s demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms.

As the mother’s symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome that becomes her bible, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem.

An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.

“I could not love a novel more than Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch. It’s such a uniquely brilliant book, one that looks at the intersection of motherhood and art, the terror of ‘a thousand artless afternoons’. It is so wonderfully observant, so precise, and yet manages to expand and expand upon those initial concerns, turning magical, dark, and funny.” (Kevin Wilson, New York Times best-selling author of Nothing to See Here)

“Yoder’s guttural and luminous debut blends absurdism, humor, and myth to lay bare the feral, violent realities underlying a new mother’s existence…. Bursting with fury, loneliness, and vulgarity, Yoder’s narrative revels in its deconstruction of the social script women and mothers are taught to follow, painstakingly reading between the lines to expose the cruel and downright ludicrous ways in which women are denied their personhood. An electric work by an ingenious new voice, this is one to devour.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

“A darkly funny, often insightful dive into the competitive relationship and mutually generative potential between art and motherhood and the animalism underlying procreation and child-rearing…. A battle hymn as novel about sinking your teeth into the available options for self-determination and ripping them to shreds.” (Kirkus Reviews)