THE RABBIT HUTCH

DARKLY HILARIOUS AND SEARINGLY RELEVANT THE RABBIT HUTCH IS A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF 21st CENTURY AMERICA SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE UNFORGETTABLE BLANDINEWinner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022 * Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022'Inventive heartbreaking and acutely funny' ObserverVacca Vale Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek's list of dying American cities. According to the developers however it's a city with a whole history of reinvention one that 'buzzes with the American spirit.'Not everyone agrees though - certainly not the residents of the Rabbit Hutch a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre populated by a cast of unforgettable disenfranchised characters. There's an online obituary writer a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents and most notably eighteen-year-old Blandine recently released from foster care and determined to stop the developers whatever the cost. Set over one sweltering week in July The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America. Bold experimental and brilliantly written it will live in the memory long after the final page. A Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022'The Rabbit Hutch is 2022's The Secret History' The Big IssueA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award * Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize * An Oprah Daily Book of the Year 2022A New York Times bestseller Sept 3 2023