TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gunty,Tess
TI  - The rabbit hutch
SN  - 9780593534663
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Apartment dwellers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Middle West
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - Foster children
KW  - Violence
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--; The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck. C8 harbors an extraordinary fear. But C4 is of particular interest. Here live four teenagers who have recently aged out of the state foster-care system: three boys and one girl, Blandine, who The Rabbit Hutch centers around. Hauntingly beautiful and unnervingly bright, Blandine is plagued by the structures, people, and places that not only failed her but actively harmed her. Now all Blandine wants is an escape, a true bodily escape like the mystics describe in the books she reads. Set across one week and culminating in a shocking act of violence, The Rabbit Hutch chronicles a town on the brink, desperate for rebirth. How far will its residents--especially Blandine--go to achieve it? Does one person's gain always come at another's expense?
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