THE RABBIT HUTCH – TESS GUNTY

DARKLY HILARIOUS AND SEARINGLY RELEVANT, THE RABBIT HUTCH IS A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF 21st CENTURY AMERICA, SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE UNFORGETTABLE BLANDINE Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022 * Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022 Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny Observer Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek s list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however, it s a city with a whole history of reinvention, one that buzzes with the American spirit. Not everyone agrees though – certainly not the residents of the Rabbit Hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre, populated by a cast of unforgettable, disenfranchised characters. There s an online obituary writer, a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents and, most notably, eighteen-year-old Blandine, recently released from foster care and determined to stop the developers whatever the cost. Set over one sweltering week in July, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America. Bold, experimental and brilliantly written, it will live in the memory long after the final page. A Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022 The Rabbit Hutch is 2022 s The Secret History The Big Issue A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award * Winner of the Barnes Noble Discover Prize * An Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022 A New York Times bestseller, Sept 3 2023