"An astonishing portrait . . . Gunty delves into the stories of Blandine''s neighbors, brilliantly and achingly charting the range of their experiences. . . . It all ties together, achieving this first novelist''s maximalist ambitions and making powerful use of language along the way. Readers will be breathless."
         -- Publisher''s Weekly (starred review)

"[A] breathtaking novel . . . Your allegiances will shift and shift again as the plot writhes toward a shocking, but inevitable, conclusion."
         -- Good Housekeeping ,

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"Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."
         -- Hephzibah Anderson, The Guardian

"Masterly prose and imaginative depictions . . . Gunty''s first novel is a weirdly absorbing read that captures the heart and soul of a Rust Belt town. . . . A woefully beautiful tale of a community striving for rebirth and redemption; highly recommended."
         -- Faye A. Chadwell, Library Journal (starred review)

"As Gunty introduces each new voice, she makes storytelling seem like the most fun a person can have. She draws us along with rapturous glee while layering her symbolism so thick that the story should, by all rights, drown in it. But The Rabbit Hutch never loses focus thanks to Blandine, who has a kind of literary superpower: She''s aware of her place in the story, points out Gunty''s metaphors, arches a brow at the symbols and has something to say about all of it. . . . Redemption is possible, and Gunty''s novel consecrates this noble search."
         -- Cat Acree, BookPage (starred review)

"Gunty writes with such compassion for her characters as they build their lives and assert their agency in a country that utterly disregards them, and in particular Blandine''s bright, fierce curiosity for the world kept me moving through the story; she''s a warrior, an intellectual force, a young woman who refuses to be disempowered. This is a skillfully told, beautiful, human story."
         -- Corinne Segal, Literary Hub ,

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"A powerful and brutal book, brimming with dark and funny lines . . . Gunty''s true subject, though, is a land of loneliness, squandered potential and exploitation that feels uniquely American -- and also the human interconnections and strokes of luck that can help us survive it."
         -- Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times

"This seriously impressive debut novel -- about the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment block in small-town Indiana -- thrillingly blends the vivid realism and comic experimentalism so beloved of American fiction. The writing is incandescent, the range of styles and voices remarkable. . . . There''s so much dazzling stuff here, it can be hard to know where to look. . . . What lingers is something simple: the sparkling interiority of its characters."
         -- Robert Collins, The Sunday Times (London)

"Throughout, tension is mixed with hilarity, heartbreak with hope. It all makes for a gripping, memorable debut full of peculiar wonders."
         -- The Mail on Sunday (London),

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"Just when everything seemed designed for a brief moment of utility before its planned obsolescence, here comes The Rabbit Hutch , a profoundly wise, wildly inventive, deeply moving work of art whose seemingly infinite offerings will remain with you long after you finish it. Each page of this novel contains a novel, a world."
         -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated

"In The Rabbit Hutch , Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies--the kind we build with other people, and the kind we cultivate around ourselves and our tenuous, private aspirations."
         -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster

"Tess Gunty is a masterful talent with a remarkable eye for the poetic, the poignant, and the absurdly sublime. The Rabbit Hutch unspools the story of Blandine Watkins and other inhabitants of a rundown building on the edge of the once bustling Vacca Vale, Indiana. A brutal and beautiful novel that both delights and devastates with its unflinching depiction of Rust Belt decline, Gunty''s debut is a tour de force that''s sure to top this year''s best-of lists."
         -- Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy

" The Rabbit Hutch aches, bleeds, and even scars but it also forgives with laughter, with insight, and finally, through an act of generational independence that remains this novel''s greatest accomplishment, with an act of rescue, rescue of narrative, rescue from ritual, rescue of heart, the rescue of tomorrow."
         -- Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of Leaves

"Philosophical, and earthy, and tender and also simply very fun to read--Tess Gunty is a distinctive talent, with a generous and gently brilliant mind."
         -- Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

"Remarkable . . . Brilliantly imaginative . . . Gunty is a wonderful writer, a master of the artful phrase. . . . Best of all, her fully realized characters come alive on the page, capturing the reader and not letting go."
         -- Michael Cart, Booklist (starred review)

"Darkly funny, surprising, and mesmerizing . . . A stunning and original debut that is as smart as it is entertaining . . . Gunty pans swiftly from room to room, perspective to perspective, molding a story that . . . is extremely suspenseful and culminates in a finale that will leave readers breathless. With sharp prose and startling imagery, the novel touches on subjects from environmental trauma to rampant consumerism to sexual power dynamics to mysticism to mental illness, all with an astonishing wisdom and imaginativeness. . . . A striking and wise depiction of what it means to be awake and alive in a dying building, city, nation, and world."
         -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)