The Rabbit Hutch
Books | Fiction / Coming of Age
3.9
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Tess Gunty
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about • "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The GuardianA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, PeopleBlandine isn't like the other residents of her building.An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana.Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch.Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, Blandine shares her apartment with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands, all, like her, now aged out of the state foster care system that has repeatedly failed them, all searching for meaning in their lives.Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment and, ultimately, freedom."Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies―the kind we build with other people, and the kind we cultivate around ourselves and our tenuous, private aspirations."—Raven Leilani, author of Luster
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Author
Tess Gunty
Pages
352
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2022-08-02
ISBN
0593534662 9780593534663
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Quirky good"
Lauri Weinberg
"Indiana"
Rachel Joy
"it took some time to get the story going, but once the pace picked up, it was hard to put down.
I think the drag I experienced in the beginning of this book was used well to breathe life into the characters, who's paths inevitably cross. Some in brief, small ways, others in large, swooping ones. Even with characters I find little to relate to, I fully enjoyed the story when it was all said and told. "
Aiyana Marie
"This is going to sound weird but I found the characters to be totally unrelatable to my life but the prose is so intelligent and on point that I could not put this down. Weird but awesome. One of my faves of the year. "
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Anne Miller
"Hard-to-describe but very interesting story about a variety of interconnected characters that will appeal to fans of Jennifer Egan."
Ricki Marking-Camuto
"It wasn't bad, it wasn't good. Think on that for a beat. You bet I will.<br/><br/>I feel like Tiffany was supposed to be Gunty. The little waif girl that was so smart and EXtRAoRDINARY...and that was kind of yucky. Eyes a little too far apart...blonde hair..not as perfect as ... all the other ,perfect & rich white girls, from a place in Indiana like...South Bend."
Nena Obrien
"This is so unlike anything I've ever read. It's a whole new thing. I'm kind of speechless. How brilliantly and beautifully written. This book didn't even need a plot. I was hooked from the first page, but I went through this slowly because I didn't ever want to leave Tess Gunty's voice behind. What a special thing this is. <br/><br/>Something I especially enjoyed is how it handled the burden of being...well, special. How it's not all it's cracked up to be. How tortured genius backfires, and not just through lifelong mental illness. <br/><br/>How clever and weird. I love it."
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