
The Rabbit Hutch
“Mesmerizing.”
New York Times Book Review
A Good Housekeeping Pick of Summer Books
A London Financial Times Pick of Best Debut Novels
A Literary Hub Pick of Summer Books
A Barnes & Noble Discover Award Recipient
Winner of the National Book Award
A Top 10 BookPage Best Book of 2022
A Time Magazine Best Book of 2022
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
A People Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Oprah.com Best Books of the Year Pick
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of National Book Award, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for Mark Twain Award, 2023
Among shortlisted titles for Mark Twain Award, 2023
Winner of National Book Award, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for Mark Twain Award, 2023
Winner of National Book Award, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for Mark Twain Award, 2023
Winner of National Book Award, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for Mark Twain Award, 2023
Winner of National Book Award, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, 2022
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
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