“Night Night Fawn” Feels Like a Mid-Century Comedy Noir — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

Jordy Rosenberg holds thing backmost successful his timely caller fresh astir sexuality and intergenerational conflict, Night Night Fawn.

The caller examines nan communicative of Barbara Rosenberg, described arsenic an "old-world yenta, committed homophobe, accomplished jazzercizer" who is penning nan communicative of her life while terminally sick and precocious connected opioids.

Although she has overmuch to talk about, including a grounded profession arsenic an actress, her clip arsenic a receptionist for a integrative surgeon connected nan Upper East Side and a precocious husband, her mind is elsewhere.

Barbara alternatively wants her communicative to attraction connected her existent thoughts connected gender, Karl Marx and nan Jewish diaspora, on pinch her estranged trans boy and long-lost champion friend who betrayed her.

"As she descends further into delirium and illness, Barbara’s theories get wilder, and her circumstances put her connected a clang people pinch these intimates erstwhile again," a synopsis explains.

In a connection shared pinch PEOPLE, Rosenberg says nan screen "perfectly captured nan novel's style," which he describes arsenic "midtown, mid-century comedic noir."

"I really emotion nan measurement nan bubbly '70s style font against nan achromatic background [designed by Rachel Willey] visually reproduces nan novel's operation of 70s seductive satire, gutter schtick and scatter of gothic menace," says Rosenberg. "It genuinely is nan creation balanced of what I was going for successful this book."

Rosenberg says nan caller is meant to beryllium nan "fictional memoir of a very disgruntled, bigoted mother rehashing a life of complaints, peculiarly those that interest her transgender son."

"It was generative to ventriloquize and lampoon from nan wrong nan far-right attachments this characteristic has, particularly her unhinged opinions astir gender and sexuality arsenic good arsenic Jewish diaspora and nan Israeli authorities project," he explains.

While Rosenberg hopes readers will admit nan book arsenic a activity of satire, he besides hopes that it will "illuminate nan often insidious ordinariness of far-right politics."

"These worldviews aren't only successful nan news; sometimes they're wrong our ain families," he says. "For me, drama is simply a measurement of confronting these histories, and it seems to maine that it's a very bully clip for america to speak successful an accessible comic vernacular astir topics that person been held up arsenic 'too complex' for anyone but politicians."

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Night Night Fawn arrives connected bookshelves connected March 3, 2026, and is disposable for preorder now, wherever books are sold.