The Oldest Bitch Alive by Morgan Day

The Oldest Bitch Alive by Morgan Day

Morgan Day's debut novel grapples with the meaning of life and terminal illness from the perspective of a French Bulldog.

'The Oldest Bitch Alive applies itself to reality in its own way: it is an ardent, juicy, brainy, filthy, massive, celebratory book about how a bulldog and some worms navigate the cosmos'

-- Daisy Hildyard, author of The Second Body

‘. . . The Oldest Bitch Alive is a stunning, speculative achievement. The novel plunges us into a place where worms are wise, dogs desire, and humans overlook the multispecies worlds they inhabit. Rich with biological marvels, philosophical ruminations, and poetic revelations, this novel lures the reader into a vivid sense of what it means to exist. . . ’

-- Stacy Alaimo, author of The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep Sea Life

'The very first vermiform novel! The Oldest Bitch Alive will worm its way into the vitreous jelly of your eyes, the hot red meat of your heart, and hatch. A manifold and manifestly astonishing debut.'

-- Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan

'New writing I immediately love comes along only every few years. Morgan Day's The Oldest Bitch Alive is my find of the year: philosophically expansive, linguistically dexterous, formally adventurous, surprising, moving and very funny.'

-- Joanna Walsh, author of Vertigo and My Life as a Godard Movie

'Days after I’d finished reading The Oldest Bitch Alive, phrases and images from the novel were still sounding in my head. It is entirely and utterly unique, meditative, philosophical, and entertaining—it wraps you in pulsing rhythms of strange, elliptical prose, yet ultimately deposits you on entirely solid ground. A masterpiece!'

-- Albertine Clarke, author of The Body Builders

'The Oldest Bitch Alive is an iridescent reminder of literature’s unique power. Morgan Day’s genius unfurls across each page, microcosm by microcosm, discovering immense depth in the gut of this small dog. Sensational, unnerving, and true.'

-- Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat

‘Only a few pages into Morgan Day’s captivating The Oldest Bitch Alive, her reader is already comfortably seated in what will become a ride of quiet and yet spirited exhilaration. We sit back and begin to admire what we are presented. Make no mistake—Day’s splendid work can be challenging, but what are minds for if not to be challenged by a writer who is in control of the ride and her landscape? Along the way, there is language to admire (‘Seasons dress and undress the trees’), and there are ‘meditations’ (and I mean that in the best way) on everything from the meaning of cosmic to whether animals can commit suicide. At the core of this ride is the moving story of Gelsomina (and the few in her orbit), a French Bulldog making her bumpety-bump way in the lower part of a glass house, making her swollen belly way toward an end even though 'much of life has never happened to her.' It is a story we should tip our hats to.’

-- Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World

Morgan Day is a fiction and architecture writer based in Tuscon, Arizona. Her short fiction has appeared in Ecotone magazine, Gulf Coast journal, Worms magazine and The Southampton Review. She was the editor of Formgiving. An Architectural Future History from TASCHEN, the third installment of the design firm BIG's trilogy. The Oldest Bitch Alive is her debut novel.

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ISBN 13	9781836750093
ISBN 10	1836750099
Title	The Oldest Bitch Alive
Author	Morgan Day
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Akoya Publishing
Year published	2026-04-23
Number of pages	208
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