Powered by playful originality and a cast of brilliantly drawn characters living in the same dilapidated apartment block in a post-industrial Mid-West town, Gunty's compulsively readable debut blends razor-sharp psychological insight with irresistible humour.
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022
Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for September 2022
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A bitingly funny, razor-sharp debut about a motley assortment of residents in a crumbling apartment block.
Welcome to The Rabbit Hutch.
An online obituary writer. A young mother with a secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents. Separated by the thin walls of The Rabbit Hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the run-down Indiana town of Vacca Vale, these individual lives unfold.
But Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, she spends her hours reading Dante and dreaming about becoming a female mystic.
Until, that is, three sweltering days in July culminate in an act of violence that will change everything, and finally offer her a chance to escape. Savage and hilarious, The Rabbit Hutch is a piercing look at the power structures that shape us, and the tale of a young woman with irrepressible strength.
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
ISBN: 9780861545773
Number of pages: 352
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
If The Rabbit Hutch had existed when I was in my late teens/early twenties, I would have held it close and cherished it.
This novel is visceral but bleak, darkly funny, excruciatingly sad, and unforgiving in its...
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I think this will stay with me for a long while - it's an extraordinary book, unlike anything I've read before.
At the heart of it all is the story of Blandine, a young woman and previous foster kid who is...
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This novel was an ambitious and stunning debut from Tess Gunty. Between the beautifully developed characters and the author's ability to fit many stories into one, this novel gifts its readers with a... More
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