Rabbits for Food

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Pub Date 14 Nov 2019 | Archive Date 26 Nov 2019

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'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.

'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...


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ISBN 9781788164658
PRICE £12.99 (GBP)
PAGES 384

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I adored this book. Never gave I read such an accurate portrayal of depression. This black comedy follows Bunny and her husband Albie as they navigate life with Bunny's depression.

The humour and wit is perfect, and made me laugh out loud. At times I thought I would be triggered by the subject matter but Kirshenbaum writes with an innate sensitivity that can only come with experiencing mental illness first hand.

I was reminded of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar; the female perspective, the psychiatric hospital, the "treatment". Rabbits For Food is a fantastic contemporary account of female depression that explores themes of loneliness, friendship and companionship.

One of my top reads so far this year, I didn't want it to end.

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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.

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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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