Rabbits for Food
Books | Fiction / Humorous / General
3.8
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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 writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully 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 "lunatics" 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 of--or into--the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of our most indispensable writers.
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Author
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Pages
371
Publisher
Soho Press
Published Date
2019
ISBN
1641290536 9781641290531
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"This book is not for the faint of heart. Fair warning. It is a wholly unapologetic look at depression (the real kind, not the Netflix kind) and it can get very intense. If you’ve ever suffered, or are suffering from depression, you need to really have a talk with yourself about whether you are in a space to read this, because there are parts that will take you right with Bunny, into the deep end. That all being said, this book... was beautiful. Not laugh out loud funny like the reviews said, but if you’re dark enough, there are definitely parts where you can spare to chuckle deeply. But for the most part, it’s raw, it’s real and it’s scary as **** in that it pulls you into it. I had to take a few breaks from reading because it dragged me into it. But at the end I was glad I was dragged??? Be honest with yourself. Take your time if you do read it and don’t be embarrassed if you can’t finish. It’s a great book for those who know demons but also not a great book if you’re actively fighting them right now. "
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