In the New York Times bestselling novel, The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty introduces us to Vacca Vale, Indiana, a dying city clinging to its past automobile manufacturing glory days. After decades of economic disintegration brought on by the closing of Zorn Automotive Manufacturing, we meet the residents of an affordable housing building, particularly the brilliant but lost 17-year-old, Blandine, who has “graduated” from foster care and is now living with three boys, also products of the broken system. We meet Blandine’s lecherous high school teacher, a developer who plans to build on the only remaining green space in the city, and an aged former child star who has died. Blandine, guided by the writings of medieval saints, tries to find a future for herself, her city, and the only remaining green space which is about to go under the developer’s shovel. “Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny” Observer.
