Rabbit Cake
- Authors: Annie Hartnett
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- Type: Novel
- Genres: General Fiction
- Rank:Top 1000 in Best Coming of Age Fiction Books on Amazon
- Rating: 4.3 based on 2,598 reviews
- Release Date: May 17, 2017
- Print length: 448 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
Fans of 's Where'd You Go Bernadette and and Kevin Wilson's The Family Fang will delight in Annie Hartnett's debut, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother.
Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn't yet know - like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother's silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother's death and finds comfort, if not answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom, Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief, family, and the endurance of humor after loss.
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Praise for Rabbit Cake
Annie Hartnett's Rabbit Cake is fantastically original...With this novel, she's become one of my favorite writers.