“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? 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

“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

“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

“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 solid ground. A masterpiece!” —Albertine Clarke, author of The Body Builders

“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

“Weirdly immersive and irresistible, written in exquisite, palpable prose, The Oldest Bitch Alive is a stunning, speculative achievement. I will be reflecting on this mesmerizing novel for a very long time!” —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

"There’s plenty here to sink your teeth into (or rather gums, in poor Gelsomina’s case), and that’s before we get to the dense, energetic prose, which is rendered with Lispector-esque (another clear influence) relish and sensuality as Morgan Day ingeniously constructs universes of meaning on the largest and smallest of scales." —Kit Maude, World Literature Today

“The book skips lightly from character reveries to essayistic asides to cosmic manifestos voiced by Gelsomina or her worms. It trips my mind onto any number of tangential subjects: climate change, motherhood, strays, more-than-human design, domesticity, objects and the objectified. Perhaps that’s the right reaction to a book grappling with the unwieldy questions of how we are to determine meaning in our lives and how our lives relate to others.” —Eleanor Slankard, (Parentheses) Review

“Most original . . . In imagining her disturbed perceptions, the novel shows the old dog’s circumscribed world transfigured by long forgotten yearnings and powerfully altered understandings.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

“If there’s a more original novel published this year, I’ll be amazed.” —Suzi Feay, Financial Times

“The Oldest Bitch Alive by Tucsonan Morgan Day may be the most original novel we see all year, a polyphonic story featuring an old French bulldog living through her final days. With a surprisingly erudite voice, she ponders the world around her … and the role she plays in it.” —Emily Walsh, Arizona Daily Star

“Morgan Day’s The Oldest Bitch Alive is a powerful and cleverly written novel, one of the year’s strongest debuts.” —David Gutowski, Largehearted Boy

“I’ve never read anything like this book. I went into the book without much context, and my jaw was on the floor on every page. I couldn’t stop reading. I needed Day’s novel more than anything. If you like to be challenged and rewarded and surprised by gorgeous writing, then this is the only novel you need.” —Adam Vitcavage, Debutiful

“Eloquent and playful in its exploration of the divine within the mundane, The Oldest Bitch Alive breaks apart traditional novelistic conventions to create something bizarrely new.” —Sam Franzini, Our Culture

"I am currently losing my mind over Morgan Day’s book, The Oldest Bitch Alive, which you must read . . . It makes you think differently about an animal, even from that low vantage point. It is amazing. I also love a good sentence, and it is full of excellent sentences." —Dal Choda, To Be Magazine

“Day explores the nature of parasitic and symbiotic relationships in her wondrous debut, which largely follows the deterioration of a couple’s beloved French bulldog . . . This unique novel invites the reader to see the world anew.” —Publishers Weekly

“This is an ambitious, freewheeling novel that plays with a great deal of philosophical material, but the painstaking specificity in which Day packages these musings, along with the visceral suffering and ecstasy of the book’s tragic heroine, protect it from opacity. An uncommonly commanding debut.” —Kirkus Reviews