"In the tradition of #PhilipRoth’s #PortnoysComplaint, #NightNightFawn is a rant — and it’s a rant of comedic genius. There’s a hand job at a screening of Exodus. There are cold cuts at an open-casket funeral. There’s a despised corduroy blazer that surfaces and resurfaces from hiding, a pesky affirmation of the young Jordana's gender fluidity (she actually believed she could accoutre herself out of the misery of femaleness, says Barbara). There’s erotic Marxist lesbian science fiction.
While the #novel alternates in setting between contemporary #Manhattan and mid-20th-century #Brooklyn, Barbara’s speech is a relic of the latter - deliciously populated with the tropes and #Yiddishisms of nose jobs and Hadassah, Junior’s Deli and schmucks. It[...] has spent time at Coney Island; a novel that spits pellets of kasha varnishkes. It also spits bullets at Israeli settlers.
As grounded as the novel is in earthy humor, Night Night Fawn can also be mystically surreal."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/books/review/night-night-fawn-jordy-rosenberg.html