![]() The less details you know going in the better, so I'll stop here. By the end, Nightbitch-the character-becomes a complicated hero, the face of incredible possibility and deserving of our admiration, even as she evokes horror in everyone who's been brainwashed by what the patriarchy says a woman should be. The closest thing I can possibly compare it too is indeed Franz Kafka's 1915 masterpiece, The Metamorphosis, which also utilizes a human-to-creature transformation to much symbolic delight. Certainly there are books three times as long with far less to ponder. Yet the story does fly by with remarkable speed, even as it feels "meatier" than a mere 256 pages. ![]() Though there is a plot, character progression and something like a hero's quest, this is a philosophical novel more than a summer beach read. Go in expecting to be taken aback, to have impossible thoughts, to have the rug swept out from under you, to question your beliefs and then question your own questioning. The premise of a stay-at-home mom transforming into a dog takes some time to accept, but the sooner you just go with it the sooner you can embrace your own inner animal. Generally i like experimental fiction, but at the same time i don't think weird = smart.Ī Kafka-esque dish of raw meat feminism, served so rare it drips with blood! This is the wildest ride I've been on outside of Six Flags. there are barely-there characters i find charming or necessary or both regularly, but that wasn't the case here. almost no one shows up besides our dear nightbitch and her very boring son (i don't like children in fiction, this is not the book's fault), but i wish they were hardly there at all! don't do them if they feel like detractions. ![]() ![]() I have seen the theme of the violence of women's lives - the violence of birth, sex, giving birth, and death - done in ways i liked better! without descriptions of wagging tails and rotting flesh! i could rewatch the fleabag women live in pain monologue, for example, and then also just rewatch fleabag, and have a roughly 200% better time.Īlso, in my opinion, this would have been better with even less page time spent on other characters. Nightbitch, which at not even 300 pages is somehow clocking in at "significantly overlong," follows a wife and mom who is so exhausted / depleted / unappreciated / unfulfilled she eventually turns into a dog at night, in a really obvious metaphor that comes across fairly obviously throughout the book, and then is outright explained in its last pages. Sooooo important to see yourself represented in fiction.Īnd just like myself, this book is annoying. ![]()
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