Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulResidents of one run-down apartment building in an Indiana town, as developers plan to remake it
The Rabbit Hutch
by Tess Gunty
Eighteen-year-old Blandine and her neighbors share a run-down building in an Indiana town
Blandine is eighteen and a former foster youth. She lives in La Lapiniere, a low-income housing complex in the fictional town of Vacca Vale, Indiana. Her neighbors include Joan, who works screening comments on an obituary website, and Hope, who is struggling with postpartum depression. Developers are planning a so-called revitalization of the area, and the novel moves between these lives over five parts and forty-two sections.
More about this book
Who
Blandine, eighteen and a former foster youth, along with neighbors such as Joan, who screens comments on an obituary site, and Hope, who has postpartum depression.
World
Vacca Vale, a fictional town in Indiana, and La Lapiniere, a housing complex where the story centers.
What makes it different
The book is divided into five parts and forty-two sections and moves between many characters. It is Gunty's first novel.
Feel
Thoughtful and varied in tone. It won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Rabbit HutchWikipedia