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“Jordy Rosenberg might be one of our most fearless living novelists. There are no half-measures in his work, just big ideas and living characters and gorgeous sentences and metafictional panache and surprise after heart-stopping surprise. Night Night Fawn is extraordinary.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
NIGHT NIGHT FAWN
Coming March 3, 2026 from One World/Random House
From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures—including her child.
In a cluttered rent-controlled apartment in the middle of Manhattan, Barbara Rosenberg is terminally ill, high on opioids, and writing the story of her life. She has opinions about her smutty late husband, her career as the receptionist for a disreputable plastic surgeon, her glory days as an accomplished jazzerciser, and her failed aspirations to be a film noir actress. But what she really wants to talk about are unhinged thoughts on gender, Karl Marx, Zionism, and her two great disappointing loves: an estranged trans son and a long-lost best friend whose betrayal haunts Barbara still. As she descends further into delirium and illness, Barbara finds herself in a nightmare from which she cannot escape, and her circumstances put her on a crash course with these intimates—or are they avenging nemeses?—once again.
Part novel, part someone’s mother’s unauthorized memoir—all diatribe, gutter schtick, and deranged manifesto, Night Night Fawn is a ferociously candid account of intergenerational conflict.
PRAISE FOR NIGHT NIGHT FAWN
“Jordy Rosenberg’s exuberant, exasperating narrator unleashes the full, hilarious, and ultimately revealing power of the rant. Night Night Fawn is a hugely enjoyable novel, devious and rich in irony.”
—Sofia Samatar, British Fantasy Award-winning author of The White Mosque
“Hot damn, Jordy Rosenberg can write! Night Night Fawn contains an unabashed, unhinged, urgent id that rockets around its pages at escape velocity—and yet it voices that id with control, precision, and originality. Moving! Thrilling! This is me applauding in blurb form.”
—Torrey Peters, Pen/Hemingway Award winner and best selling author of Stag Dance
“Night Night Fawn is one of the most astounding novels of our time, a triumph of voice and social critique, a generational reckoning that is as urgent and gripping as it is playful and wickedly funny. Trust again the singular brilliance and heart of Jordy Rosenberg.”—David Chariandy, author of Brother and winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction
“A singularly hysterical and ferocious novel, a book that has you in stitches while re-suturing you—inviting you to feel how history both moves through and acts upon a body . . . an urgent intervention into contemporary Jewish letters and the ways in which settler colonialism and gendered violence reproduce inside our families. . . . I was absolutely floored by this book and am just now peeling myself up off the ground.”—Sam Sax, author of National Book Award Longlisted, Yr Dead
“A bravura performance . . . Rosenberg breaks open a library of silences here.”—Alexander Chee, best-selling, Whiting Award-winning author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“A novel as wickedly funny as it is smart. I have simply never read anything like it—exactly the queer, marxist, yenta-narrated tour de force that we need right now, an instant classic.”
—Melissa Febos, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Body Work
“From one of our most fearless living novelists comes this extraordinary book. No half measures here, just big ideas and living characters and metafictional panache and surprise after heart-stopping surprise.”
—Carmen Maria Machado, best-selling author of the National Book Award Longlisted, In the Dream House
"An epic, audacious and daring act of literary trespass through the ruins of family, history, and Zionism" —Andrea Lawlor, Whiting Award-winning author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl