Night Night Fawn

Quotes

“Propulsive . . . Entertaining . . . Rosenberg leaves the right questions unanswered.”—The Boston Globe

“Throughout Barbara Rosenberg’s self-portrait—at once charming, misinformed, even brutal—the reader is compelled to reflect on the many truths a single human being can contain: so frequently wrong, but sometimes delightfully so.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Rosenberg, through Barbara, deals with death, dying, the Jewish diaspora, Israel, far-right politics . . . and much, much more in this darkly comic novel.”—Town & Country

“Rosenberg holds nothing back in his timely new novel about sexuality and intergenerational conflict.”—People

“Incendiary.”—Publishers Weekly

“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

“Exultantly brazen, a zinger of a novel . . . Not since Jeannette Winterson’s memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal, have I read such a blistering—or satisfying—indictment of a queerphobic parent.”—4Columns

“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

“Readers familiar with any intergenerational family friction will find catharsis here. And that's the gift of Rosenberg, the author: funny, readable prose inviting everyone into the thrill of relatable satire.”—Booklist, starred review

“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

“Night Night Fawn is one of the most 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 and wickedly funny. Trust again the singular brilliance and heart of Jordy Rosenberg.”—David Chariandy, author of Brother

“An urgent intervention into contemporary Jewish letters and the ways in which settler colonialism and gendered violence reproduce inside our families.”—Sam Sax, author of Yr Dead

“An epic, audacious and daring act of literary trespass through the ruins of family, history, and Zionism.”—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

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