A review by sapphicpenguin
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

dark funny mysterious

5.0

I didn't love every single moment, but this is a damn good book. Reads like one of those short stories from English class that you think about for the rest of your life, but longer and funnier. Felt like Kafka mixed with Neil Gaiman mixed with (cis) womanhood/motherhood anger.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Body horror, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Magical realism–typical unreality vibes. Discussions of childbirth.

Explicit description of the main character murdering her cat out of anger. Toddler son witnesses many acts of strangeness/animal cruelty and experiences occasional neglect/endangerment. He is portrayed as generally happy, and is never actually physically hurt. Body horror is descriptions of human-to-animal transformations.