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Nightbitch
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Narrated by:
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Cassandra Campbell
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By:
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Rachel Yoder
About this listen
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
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Fantastic!
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If you like animal moms but want something more gutteral
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A Mediative and fantastical journey into the essence of motherhood
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Yoder’s depiction of that transition to motherhood, and the unravelling and recalibration of a woman’s psyche during this journey was deeply relatable once you open yourself up to it. Even the wilder incidents in the book (the most violent ones in particular) feel strangely relatable, in a metaphoric way. It was really like a rollercoaster of emotions as an adjusting mum; I felt her joy, her anxiety, her rage, her pain; all of which felt validating of my own.
I decided to watch the movie adaptation of this after finishing the book, and was SO disappointed. This book has incredible potential for a really daring screen writer/director, but sadly I didn’t feel it did it any justice. They leant into the comedy aspect, and worked too hard to make the protagonist likeable to as wide an audience as possible. Honestly, I loved the protagonist in the book pretty much from start to finish, but there are times that makes you question your own sanity (and that’s the fun part). I think, had I watched the movie first, I’d have probably loved it - and there were parts I enjoyed - but I really missed the darkness and macabre of the book, which could have been incredible on-screen with the right body horror filmmaker.
Dark, disturbing, and fantastical exploration of motherhood
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Imaginative and gripping
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