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Night Night Fawn

A Novel

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On sale Mar 03, 2026 | 304 Pages | 9780593448007

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.

“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

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.
“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, author of Detransition, Baby

Night Night Fawn is one of the 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.”—David Chariandy, author of Brother

“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, author of In the Dream House

“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 Yr Dead

“A novel as wickedly funny as it is smart . . . I have simply never read anything like it.”—Melissa Febos, author of Body Work

“Rosenberg invites us into an epic, audacious investigation of a mother and thus of gender, familial homophobia and transphobia, Jewishness and Zionism, and memory and self-delusion, across the millennium and all at an angle. I love this brilliant and hilarious novel!”—Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

“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

“A bravura performance . . . Rosenberg breaks open a library of silences here.”—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
© Boewulf Sheehan
Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the novel Confessions of the Fox, a New York Times Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award, and named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews and others. Jordy’s work has been supported by MacDowell, The Lannan Foundation, The Banff Centre, and The Ahmanson-Getty Foundation. He is a professor in the Department of English and Associated MFA Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers at UMass-Amherst. View titles by Jordy Rosenberg

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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.

“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

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

“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, author of Detransition, Baby

Night Night Fawn is one of the 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.”—David Chariandy, author of Brother

“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, author of In the Dream House

“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 Yr Dead

“A novel as wickedly funny as it is smart . . . I have simply never read anything like it.”—Melissa Febos, author of Body Work

“Rosenberg invites us into an epic, audacious investigation of a mother and thus of gender, familial homophobia and transphobia, Jewishness and Zionism, and memory and self-delusion, across the millennium and all at an angle. I love this brilliant and hilarious novel!”—Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

“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

“A bravura performance . . . Rosenberg breaks open a library of silences here.”—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Author

© Boewulf Sheehan
Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the novel Confessions of the Fox, a New York Times Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award, and named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews and others. Jordy’s work has been supported by MacDowell, The Lannan Foundation, The Banff Centre, and The Ahmanson-Getty Foundation. He is a professor in the Department of English and Associated MFA Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers at UMass-Amherst. View titles by Jordy Rosenberg

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