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PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST * PUBLISHING TRIANGLE'S EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION FINALIST *CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLIST * NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION “5 UNDER 35” HONOREE * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, DEBUTIFUL, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, AND MORE.
"A darkly sensuous tale of awakening that will quietly engulf you in flames."-Ling Ma, author of Severance
"The first great book of Summer 2022, and it'll certainly be one of the best books of the decade."-Debutiful
"Bold, frightening, and magnificent."-Julia Phillips, Vulture
"A love letter to bottoming and being an artist and following yourself."-Carmen Maria Machado
"A modern queer feminist Story of O."-Electric Literature
When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency in Maine, it's not a match. She finds him loud, conceited, domineering. But when he reappears in her life in Boston and invites her to his dance company's performance, their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding her own body's boundaries. Her body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires quickly become inextricable from her pleasure. This must be happiness, right?
But what does it mean for a queer young woman to partner with an older man, for a fledgling artist to partner with an established one? Does falling in love mean eviscerating yourself? Combining the sticky sexual politics of Luster with the dizzying, perceptive intimacy of Cleanness, Little Rabbit is a wholly new kind of coming-of-age story about lust, punishment, artistic drive, and desires that defy the hard-won boundaries of the self.
Published | Nov 14 2023 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781639731657 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 8 x 6 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
It's the first great novel of the summer.
Debutiful
A sweetly shocking novel exploring identity, love, lust, friendship, art, pain and possession.
Ms.
Like a modern queer feminist Story of O, this nuanced exploration of desire and the unseen dance between the lover and the beloved sucks you into its lush, yet precisely-rendered reality, one edged with ambiguity regarding possession and power, perception and identity.
Electric Literature
Alyssa Songsiridej's Little Rabbit shocked me. It tells truths about sex, the self, and art-making that I'd never seen on the page or even known the words to think before. It's bold, frightening, and magnificent, a work deserving of this honor and many more.
Julia Phillips, Vulture
A worthy contemplation of sexual politics, revealing how losing and finding yourself do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Claire Kohda, New York Times Book Review
It's the sexiest book we've read in a long time…a seductive, deeply complex exploration of power and agency, and lust and love. It rushes through you and leaves you stunned.
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