The Rabbit Hutch
The Rabbit Hutch is a 2022 debut novel by American novelist Tess Gunty and winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction.[11] Library Journal called the novel a "woefully beautiful tale of a community striving for rebirth and redemption,"[9] while Kirkus referred to it as a "stunning and original debut that is as smart as it is entertaining."[10] Booklist expanded on the sentiment, writing, "The brilliantly imaginative novel begins on an absurdist note before settling down to an offbeat, slightly skewed realism."[7] The New York Times Book Review noted that there are "many bold moves in Gunty's dense, prismatic and often mesmerizing debut, a novel of impressive scope and specificity that falters mostly when it works too hard to wedge its storytelling into some broader notion of Big Ideas.The insistent nudges back to the main arc stop her novel from creating the sense of invisible clockwork that would make it perfectly satisfying.