num_pages: 332
description: This is a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother. Twelve-year-old 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 3000 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 doesnt yet knowlike 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.
language: English
title: Rabbit Cake
publisher: Tin House Books