The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty · b. 1992 · United States

Why it matters

A former foster teenager obsessed with medieval mystics and the tenants of one shabby Rust Belt apartment building collide toward a single strange night of violence. Gunty's National Book Award-winning debut renders American decline with visionary intensity.

At a glance

A large ensemble cast and shifting formal registers ask readers to track multiple threads at once.