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The Rabbit Hutch
The Rabbit Hutch is a 2022 debut novel by American novelist Tess Gunty and winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. Gunty also won the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for the novel.
The novel includes the perspectives of multiple characters. Gunty credits The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams as the "novel that began" The Rabbit Hutch, as it was the first in a series of unrelated "polyphonic" novels that Gunty read.
This formally experimental and asymmetric novel is told largely from a third-person omniscient point-of-view, with protagonist Blandine as the focal character. The setting is the fictional post-industrial city of Vacca Vale, Indiana. The novel’s main protagonist is 18-year-old Blandine (formerly Tiffany Watkins), a highly gifted young woman who has recently dropped out of high school and graduated from the state’s foster care system. Most of the characters live in the low-income La Lapiniere Affordable Housing Complex.
“On a hot night in Apartment C4, Blandine Watkins exits her body. She is only eighteen years old, but she has spent most of her life wishing for this to happen…The mystics call this experience the Transverberation of the Heart, or the Seraph’s Assault, but no angel appears to Blandine. There is, however, a bioluminescent man in his fifties, glowing like a firefly. He runs at her and yells.”—Opening paragraph to The Rabbit Hutch.
The novel has no table of contents. It is organized into five parts (Parts I-V), comprising a total of 42 individually titled sections. The page numbers for each section are provided below.
PART I
Blandine reports an out-of-body experience—“exits her body” —the nature of which is not clear. She resides in apartment C4 at The Rabbit Hutch with three boys just out of their teens: Malik, Jack and Todd. Like Blandine, they have recently been released from the foster home system.
Hope, a newlywed mother with a four-month-old son, is struggling with postpartum depression. Socially isolated and alienated from her construction worker husband, Anthony, she develops a phobia of her baby’s eyes. Hope is in the habit of killing mice in snap-traps and dropping the carcasses on the balcony of the apartment below, occupied by an elderly couple, Ida and Reggie. Ida is outraged and insists on retribution.
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The Rabbit Hutch
The Rabbit Hutch is a 2022 debut novel by American novelist Tess Gunty and winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. Gunty also won the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for the novel.
The novel includes the perspectives of multiple characters. Gunty credits The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams as the "novel that began" The Rabbit Hutch, as it was the first in a series of unrelated "polyphonic" novels that Gunty read.
This formally experimental and asymmetric novel is told largely from a third-person omniscient point-of-view, with protagonist Blandine as the focal character. The setting is the fictional post-industrial city of Vacca Vale, Indiana. The novel’s main protagonist is 18-year-old Blandine (formerly Tiffany Watkins), a highly gifted young woman who has recently dropped out of high school and graduated from the state’s foster care system. Most of the characters live in the low-income La Lapiniere Affordable Housing Complex.
“On a hot night in Apartment C4, Blandine Watkins exits her body. She is only eighteen years old, but she has spent most of her life wishing for this to happen…The mystics call this experience the Transverberation of the Heart, or the Seraph’s Assault, but no angel appears to Blandine. There is, however, a bioluminescent man in his fifties, glowing like a firefly. He runs at her and yells.”—Opening paragraph to The Rabbit Hutch.
The novel has no table of contents. It is organized into five parts (Parts I-V), comprising a total of 42 individually titled sections. The page numbers for each section are provided below.
PART I
Blandine reports an out-of-body experience—“exits her body” —the nature of which is not clear. She resides in apartment C4 at The Rabbit Hutch with three boys just out of their teens: Malik, Jack and Todd. Like Blandine, they have recently been released from the foster home system.
Hope, a newlywed mother with a four-month-old son, is struggling with postpartum depression. Socially isolated and alienated from her construction worker husband, Anthony, she develops a phobia of her baby’s eyes. Hope is in the habit of killing mice in snap-traps and dropping the carcasses on the balcony of the apartment below, occupied by an elderly couple, Ida and Reggie. Ida is outraged and insists on retribution.