Rabbits for Food

Rabbits for Food

Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writerâ€™s slide into depression and institutionalization.
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Itâ€™s New Yearâ€™s Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaumâ€™s protagonistâ€”an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writerâ€”fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital, where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow â€œlunaticsâ€ and writing a novel about what brought her there. Her story is a brilliant and brutally funny dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly.
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Propelled by razor-sharp comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out ofâ€”or intoâ€”the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of our most indispensable writers.
Country USA
Manufacturer Soho Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-05-07
Format Kindle eBook

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