num_pages: 384
description: Its New Years Eve the holiday of forced gaiety mandatory fun and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends Kirshenbaum's protagonistan acerbic mordantly witty and clinically depressed writerfully 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 how she got to this place. Her story is a hilarious and harrowing deep dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights her examination of what it means to be unloved and loved; to succeed and fail; to be at once both impervious and raw ultimately reveals how art can lead us out ofor intothe depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. Rabbits for Food Kirshenbaums first novel in a decade is a bravura literary performance. A heartbreaking irreverent laugh-out-loud funny meditation on what its like to lose your mind.
language: English
title: Rabbits for Food
publisher: Soho Press