Nautica Western’s Reviews > Nightbitch > Status Update

“ Her feelings [were] unbelievable—in the manner of tall tales, urban legends, […] even though she knew them to be the truest things in her human experience, a light to show the way.”

She should eat her husband. Useless

“How much easier it would be to have two black eyes, or an easily defined disease, a wound, a broken bone, anything that could be seen and understood, an explanation inscribed in her flesh that could be shown to any person who might inquire, What’s wrong? Anything to point to and say, Aha! This must be the cause of everything!”

“…even though having a baby did not, in any way, represent a departure from work to which a woman might, theoretically, one day return. It actually, instead, marked an immersion in work, an unimaginable weight of work, a multiplication of work exponential in its scope, so staggering, both physically and psychically [..] that even the most mentally well person might be brought to her knees beneath such a load..”

“She held two master’s degrees, whereas he held none. (She also held a baby.)”

Yeah I fear I need to buy this one. Can’t quote the whole page, now can I? I love being a woman

“She lay there as long as she could without making a sound, a movement. Her child’s screams fanned a flame of rage that flickered in her chest.”

This book is knocking the wind out of me right off the bat. Very pleasantly surprised but will not get my hopes too high for any trendy & highly recommended book. Will try not to update every page. Or maybe I’ll do what I want

“The corpse would have unlimited child-care and go to show openings and drink corpse wine with the other corpses whenever it wanted, because that was heaven. That was it.”