Review: The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Tess Gunty’s widely acclaimed debut novel takes place in fictional Vacca Vale, Indiana, an obscure town in the Rust Belt of America which we discover early on has
topped Newsweek’s notorious list of “Top Ten Dying American Cities”. At the edge of town, a motley cast of characters fight to survive and aspire to thrive in separate units of a low-cost housing complex, a building named “La Lapinière”, or “The Rabbit Hutch”. Unfettered by the restraints of chronology, Gunty takes the reader on a polyphonic dance that offers both fleeting glimpses and cutting insights into the sad decline of a once bustling industrial centre and the characters who struggle haplessly against the oppressive systemic forces that disrupt and upset their lives.… Continue reading →