Tess Gunty | The Rabbit Hutch (FULL EVENT)

🐇 Join bestselling author and winner of The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize And National Book Award 2022 Tess Gunty, in conversation with Hepzhibah Anderson to celebrate the paperback release of her book The Rabbit Hutch.
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.
Behind the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre of Vacca Vale, Indiana, residents search for meaning in their lives. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents. And Blandine, who shares her flat 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.
Amidst the pain and despair, there is hope. The Rabbit Hutch is a brilliantly written and boldly experimental tour de force that explores the depths of searching and longing for healing in today’s America. Join Tess as she shares her inspiration for the novel and dives into the story’s themes.
A Night In with Tess Gunty was originally broadcast on Fri 23 Jun 2023.
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0:00 Introduction
0:45 The Wild Ride to Publication
5:43 Life in the Midwest
9:23 Which Character Came First?
11:18 Spirituality vs. Our Reality
19:31 Blandine's Beauty
22:17 Climate Concerns
25:25 Humour
29:25 Notebooks
31:57 Audience Reception
33:46 Writing Challenges
42:51 Other Inspirations
46:13 The Feeling of Being Reviewed
48:51 The Transition to Screen
50:07 What's Exciting Tess In Art?
53:21 Closing Comments
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