by Jordy Rosenberg
One World
3/3/2026, hardcover
SKU: 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.
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.
Reviews:
"Night Night Fawn is comic fiction as political firepower... Rosenberg's novel is a bright streetlight illuminating one strip of a dark street: The dangers are still nearby, but it's a place to stand and laugh loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear." -- BookPage, starred review
"Night Night Fawn is undoubtedly the Marxist, trans, comedic dystopia we need in 2026... Jordy Rosenberg's second novel subverts form to become an inherently transgressive unauthorized fictional 'memoir' that reads as hysterical manifesto." --Electric Literature
"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." -- Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
About the Author:
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.