
Rabbits for Food
by Binnie Kirshenbaum
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Pub Date Nov 14 2019 | Archive Date Nov 26 2019
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Description
'A bitingly funny, and occasionally heartbreaking, look at mental illness, love and relationships'
The New York Times
'Razor-sharp, astutely observed and acerbically funny' Guardian
'A psychotic breakdown is not often the stuff of comedy but Binnie Kirshenbaum makes it so without belittling the subject.' Daily Mail
'Darkly funny' Red
Bunny is sick to the back teeth of - well, everything, really, but especially New Year's Eve. It's nothing more than forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats.
And yet Bunny finds herself out at another New Year's dinner with her husband and a group of particularly irritating friends. It's really no wonder that this provokes an extreme action that lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital.
Refusing treatment, Bunny passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow "lunatics" and writing a novel about what brought her there. Her story is a brilliant, brutally funny insight dive into the disordered mind of someone who sees the world all too clearly.
Propelled by razor-sharp humour and rife with pinpoint observations, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be impervious and raw. A bravura literary performance from one of America's finest writers.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781788164658 |
PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 384 |
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I adored Bunny and Kirshenbaum has a knack for nailing what it's like to deal with mental illness. A first purchase for adult collections with HS crossover appeal.

I'm late to review this, but it is everything great other reviewers are saying. Rabbits for Food is a smart, often funny novel that is nonetheless a no-holds-barred examination, description, writing-out, rumination on, discussion of, testament to depression and what it does and feels like. It is impeccable.
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