Night Night Fawn

“Propulsive … Entertaining … Rosenberg leaves the right questions unanswered.”—The Boston Globe“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.”—Megan Milks, 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“From one of our most fearless living novelists comes this extraordinary book. No half measures here, just big ideas and living characters and metafictional panache and surprise after heart-stopping surprise.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House“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

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.