“I love a story with an unreliable character where you’re not quite sure what’s going on. I really wanted to maintain that question and that tension throughout the book.” Rachel Yoder speaks about motherhood, publishing a book during the pandemic, and the writing process for her debut novel, Nightbitch (Doubleday, 2021), in this episode of A Mighty Blaze with Rachel Barenbaum.
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