The Rabbit Hutch

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about - "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."--The Guardian

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, People

Blandine 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

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 08/02/2022
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.61w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9780593534663


Award: National Book Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2022 pg. 5
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 07/04/2022
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022
Library Journal 07/22/2022 pg. 1
BookPage 08/01/2022

About the Author
TESS GUNTY earned an MFA in creative writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books, No Tokens, Flash, and elsewhere. She was raised in South Bend, Indiana, and lives in Los Angeles.