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The Rabbit Hutch

by Tess Gunty · 2022

Literary Fiction · ranked #234 in category

Winner · The National Book Award for Fiction, 2022

In a crumbling apartment complex in a Rust Belt city, a group of residents — including eighteen-year-old Blandine, fresh out of the foster care system and obsessed with medieval mystics — converge toward a single shocking night. Gunty's National Book Award-winning debut is a portrait of American decline rendered with formal inventiveness and unexpected tenderness.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2022 · 2020s
Author
Tess Gunty
Standing
Essential Read

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