Night Night Fawn

Night Night Fawn is a novel by Jordy Rosenberg narrated as the deathbed rant of Barbara Rosenberg, an embittered New York Jewish woman who hallucinates her trans son as a large, ominous bird.

The book mixes satire, horror, and political critique to interrogate familial bigotry, ethnonationalism, and the interplay of material conditions and ideology.

Rosenberg uses the mother's vernacular perspective to dramatize complicity and the ordinary normalcy of transphobia and colonial attachments within households.

The novel also experiments with genre, folding in elements of horror and comedic sadism to expose libidinal investments behind cruelty.

It was published by One World in March 2024 and has been the focus of the episode's discussion about representation and political fiction.