Nightbitch

A darkly comic and visceral work of literary fiction, Nightbitch chronicles the unraveling of a former artist who abandons her career to become a stay-at-home mother, only to suspect she is slowly transforming into a dog. Rachel Yoder's debut novel presents this surreal metamorphosis as a razor-sharp metaphor for the rage, isolation, and identity loss that can accompany motherhood, wielding magical realism with ferocious wit and unflinching honesty. The narrative captures the protagonist's feral inner life with lyrical intensity, illustrating how domesticity can simultaneously suffocate and reshape a woman's sense of self. Unsettling, funny, and deeply provocative, the novel argues that the primal instincts society asks mothers to suppress do not simply disappear — they transform into something wild and undeniable.