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Knopf

9780593534663

STARRED REVIEW
Literary Fiction

The Rabbit Hutch

By Tess Gunty

Despite its doomed Midwestern setting, Tess Gunty’s debut novel makes storytelling seem like the most fun a person can have.

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Review of ‘The Rabbit Hutch’

Christian mystics are a point of obsession for the hero of Tess Gunty's debut novel. "They were spectacularly unusual," Blandine gushes early in The Rabbit Hutch. They loved suffering, she says. "Mad for it."

She's especially interested in Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, composer and…

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Best Fiction of 2022

The year’s best fiction included a remarkable number of groundbreaking story collections—some deeply interconnected like Oscar Hokeah’s and Jonathan Escoffery’s, others bound mostly by theme and setting, such as Manuel Muñoz’s. We also reveled in several major releases from well-established authors, including Celeste Ng, Ian McEwan, Yiyun Li and Gabrielle Zevin.

Sophomore novels from Hernan Diaz, Namwali Serpell, Douglas Stuart and Elif Batuman surpassed the high bars of their debuts, and first-timers Tess Gunty, Sarah Thankam Mathews and Bonnie Garmus made a hell of a splash.

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