It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny - an acerbic, mordantly witty and clinically depressed writer - fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital, where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment.
Propelled by razor-sharp comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of - or into - the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of America's finest writers.
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781788164665
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 320 g
Dimensions: 194 x 128 x 22 mm
Edition: Main
A bitingly funny, and occasionally heartbreaking, look at mental illness, love and relationships, with Kirshenbaum's familiar black humor. - The New York Times
Breaks down the mental breakdown into disquieting bite-sized pieces. It's fast-paced and turbulent, but beautifully complex, and the details are stunning. - Paul Beatty, author, The Sellout
Binnie Kirshenbaum is an unflinching teller of truths. She's also sublimely funny. Rabbits for Food shows this immensely gifted writer at the height of her powers. - Jenny Offill, author, Weather
Bunny is named after the rabbits her family raised for food. She is not likeable, she knows that. All her life, she battled with depression and in the New Year’s dinner party, she has a total meltdown and ends up in... More
Binnie Kirshenbaum's novel is acerbic, addictive and incisive.
Following Bunny's demise into deep depression, Kirshenbaum deals with a difficult subject with stylistic wit and dark humour. Bunny's...
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Bunny is a writer who has spiralled into serious depression and is struggling to cope. After we learn of a series of difficult dinner parties and angry encounters with relatives that have happened over the years,... More
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