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Abby and Patrick discuss Jordy Rosenberg's novel 'Night Night Fawn', exploring themes of family, identity, and personal struggles.

Abby and Patrick welcome novelist and academic Jordy Rosenberg to discuss his brand-new novel, Night Night Fawn. Alternately hilarious and devasting, Night Night Fawn is written in the voice of Barbara Rosenberg, an embittered New York Jewish woman penning a deathbed memoir that documents her many disappointments and frustrations – with life, love, friendship, money, and, above all her trans son, whom she hallucinates as a large and ominous bird. Night Night Fawn is also incredibly overdeterm...

People in this episode

Hosts: Abby, Patrick

Guest: Jordy Rosenberg

Topics covered

• family history
• ideology
• literature
• memoir
• trans identity

Keywords

• Jordy Rosenberg
• Night Night Fawn
• memoir
• trans son
• New York Jewish woman

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Books & works: Night Night Fawn

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