The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty

nNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ - The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about - Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny.--The Guardian nA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, People n nBlandine isn't like the other residents of her building. n nAn 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. n nWelcome to the Rabbit Hutch. n nEthereally 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.

n nSet 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. n nGunty 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 Lustern