![]() ![]() ![]() But the hirsute bumps and meat-ready incisors in “Nightbitch” are a little too canine to be written off as vague yet common women’s ailments. The pregnant body is known to go rogue in all sorts of unforeseen ways: foot arches drop and ache because ligaments are loosening for labor, hair thickens and falls out when estrogen levels roller-coaster. “The only word she could think to describe it was tail.” She feels the urge to wag it. Her teeth sharpen to “ferocious points that could cut a finger with a mere prick.” A hot, seeping vesicle bubbles up on her tailbone, and when she slices it open with an X-Acto knife, a tuft of hair pokes out. ![]() A scruff of rough, dark hair rises on the back of her neck. In Rachel Yoder’s wily and unrestrained début novel, “ Nightbitch,” a mother’s body begins to betray her, or so it appears. ![]()
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