The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty - Review

A review of The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty.
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building.
An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents - neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana.
Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch.
Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, Blandine shares her apartment 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, all searching for meaning in their lives.
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.

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I’m glad to have caught up with your stuff!

[@janethansen9612]

It was okay. I also felt that there were one or two characters who were just sort of there without really adding anything albeit they were strangely interesting for a while.

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I received an ARC of this back when it first published. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t think it was amazing. I agree that the writing is very indulgent.

[@mkmccord50]

I loved this book and really felt like it was my type of book. I do feel like I would need to know a reader’s taste very well to recommend it.