🪱 Early praise for THE OLDEST BITCH ALIVE by Morgan Day is in and it is evident that this is a must-read book to start your 2026 with!
🐕 A polyphonic debut following an aging French bulldog and the parasitic worms that send her toward death — a singular, sly novel about form, freedom, interiors, and the matter by which we are composed and consumed. Gelsomina is a French Bulldog who leads a routine life in a glass house. One day, she ingests an orb of parasitic worms who make an imperfect home inside her. Approaching death, yet filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently. The worms propel Gelsomina to plumb the meaning of her domestic existence and ask if her rebirth lies in the wild unknown outside the panes. Gelsomina’s introspections culminate in an ecstatic sprint through a natural world she’s never seen, awakening the French Bulldog to the depths of love, reverence, death, and the bound self in dichromatic color.
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Publishing March 24, 2026
Morgan Day, author of the debut novel The Oldest Bitch Alive, is on the pod this week.
The book explores the thoughts and existential angst of an ageing French bulldog beset with parasitic worms. It is a deranged, surreal and mind expanding book that dissolves the boundaries we draw around ourselves and our environment. Out this month from @akoya_publishing and @astrahousebooks .
Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across literary fiction and professional architecture writing. She’s written for many architects including the firm @big_builds where she edited the third volume of their Formgiving trilogy for @taschen . Her writing has appeared in @parisreview , @ecotonemagazinee and @gulfcoastjournal .
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Image credit: “Ungodly” by Ambera Wellman, 2021.
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🐾 Happy pub day to THE OLDEST BITCH ALIVE by Morgan Day!
✨ A “Most Anticipated Book of 2026” by The Millions, Literary Hub, Debutiful, The Maris Review, and Our Culture.
✨ An ABA April 2026 Indie Next Pick
THE OLDEST BITCH ALIVE is a polyphonic story of containment refracting across scales. Revolving perspectives meditate on consciousness, theories of everything, multispecies narratives, philosophies of form and the immaterial, and other ways in which matter is composed and consumed.
“Captivating . . . A work of quiet and yet spirited exhilaration.” —Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE KNOWN WORLD
Available now wherever books are sold!
