02833cam a2200397 i 4500 625788810 TxAuBib 20220907120000.0 211222s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021054987 9780593534663 hardcover 0593534662 hardcover (OCoLC)1285052753 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda OCLCF rda DLC OCLCO IFK LJW IK2 RNL YU6 VIA CHY GUA VP@ TXAAL TxAuBib OCLCF OCLCO IFK LJW IK2 RNL YU6 VIA CHY GUA VP@ TXAAL TxAuBib rda Gunty, Tess. Rabbit hutch. The rabbit hutch / Tess Gunty. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. ©2022. 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Rabbit Hutch is stunning debut novel about the quest for transcendence and the desire for love, set in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest. The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck. C8 harbors an extraordinary fear. But C4 is of particular interest. Here live four teenagers who have recently aged out of the state foster-care system: three boys and one girl, Blandine, who The Rabbit Hutch centers around. Hauntingly beautiful and unnervingly bright, Blandine is plagued by the structures, people, and places that not only failed her but actively harmed her. Now all Blandine wants is an escape, a true bodily escape like the mystics describe in the books she reads. Set across one week and culminating in a shocking act of violence, The Rabbit Hutch chronicles a town on the brink, desperate for rebirth. How far will its residents--especially Blandine--go to achieve it? Does one person's gain always come at another's expense? Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch is a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom. It announces a major new voice in American fiction, one bristling with intelligence and vulnerability. 20220907. Apartment dwellers Fiction. Cities and towns Middle West Fiction. Teenagers Fiction. Foster children Fiction. Violence Fiction. Middle West Fiction. Bildungsromans. Novels. Fiction. TXAAL