The bunny is having its book cover moment. If you don’t believe me, head to your closest bookstore and look for recent award winners: you’ll find Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, recently shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, cozied up next to last year’s winner for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-29 09:51:35 UTC ]
The Fall of Tess Gunty (I speak of Autumn, not ruination) continues apace with news that the Indiana author’s much-ballyhooed debut novel The Rabbit Hutch—the story of a group of residents of a low-income housing community in a fictional Indiana town over the course of one sweltering summer—has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-29 16:36:13 UTC ]
Tess Gunty, John Keene, Imani Perry, Samanta Schweblin, and Sabaa Tahir are the winners of this year's National Book Awards, which were bestowed on September 16 at the first in-person NBA ceremony since 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Among the fiction authors longlisted for a 2022 National Book Award are Tess Gunty, Jonathan Escofferey and Jamil Jan Kochai. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-16 14:16:02 UTC ]
Congratulations to Tess Gunty, whose critically acclaimed debut novel The Rabbit Hutch has just won the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize. The novel (about four teenagers—recently aged out of the state foster-care system—living together in an apartment building in the post-industrial... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-26 15:48:11 UTC ]
Tess Gunty’s debut novel The Rabbit Hutch follows the inhabitants of a low-income housing complex, called the Rabbit Hutch, in Vacca Vale, Indiana. It’s a loud novel, full of many voices, since there are many inhabitants of the Rabbit Hutch, some of whom we know by apartment number and some by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-08-18 11:00:00 UTC ]
An excerpt from Tess Gunty's debut novel The Rabbit Hutch. The post Where Life Lives On appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2022-07-19 10:43:28 UTC ]