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Soho Press
May 2019
On Sale: May 7, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 1641290536
EAN: 9781641290531
Kindle: B07GD51NCJ
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Fiction Family Life
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 writerβs slide into depression and institutionalization. Itβs New Yearβs Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaumβs protagonistβan acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writerβfully 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 βlunaticsβ 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. 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 ofβor intoβthe depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of our most indispensable writers.
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