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Little Rabbit

Written by: Alyssa Songsiridej
Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
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Bloomsbury presents Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej, read by Jenapher Zheng.

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

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. He thinks her serious, guarded, always running away to write. But when he reappears in her life in Boston and invites her to his dance company’s performance, she’s compelled to attend. Their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding her own body’s boundaries: She follows the choreographer to his home in the Berkshires, to his apartment in New York, and into submission during sex. Her body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires quickly become inextricable from her pleasure. This must be happiness, right?

Back in Boston, her roommate Annie’s skepticism amplifies her own doubts about these heady weekend retreats. 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? Is she following her own agency, or is she merely following him? 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.©2022 Alyssa Songsiridej (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction BDSM Boston
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What the critics say

It’s the first great novel of the summer.
A sweetly shocking novel exploring identity, love, lust, friendship, art, pain and possession.
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.
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.
A worthy contemplation of sexual politics, revealing how losing and finding yourself do not have to be mutually exclusive.
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.
A tantalizing queer confessional, where a bisexual woman writer is pulled to the kind of patriarchal male dancer she’d never spared a second for. Here the nearness of artistic fame is so palpable, you will desire it for the narrator nearly as much as she desires the consummation of her glittering S&M relationship. Skillfully and tautly drawn.
Explores power dynamics and kink within an unexpected relationship with riveting nuance . . . Little Rabbit arrives at just the right time, serving as a fearless inquiry into the power of bodies and intimacy.
Little Rabbit takes on the tricky issues inherent in creating with collaborators in the most incisive way I've ever seen. What boundaries are necessary, and which ones can be flexible? How can anyone advocate for themselves when their professional future could be at stake? Songsiridej unflinchingly deals with these issues and more, resulting in a book I'm recommending to all my friends who are artists in any discipline.
A darkly sensuous tale of awakening that will quietly engulf you in flames.
A deeply empathetic and horny novel—a love letter to bottoming and being an artist and following yourself to the end of everything.
Little Rabbit is a glorious debut—riveting, soulful, cerebral, and the sexiest novel I’ve ever read. In this story about ambition, power, art-making, and the pursuit of beauty, perfect for fans of Luster and Bad Behavior, Alyssa Songsiridej thrillingly interrogates the conflict between reason and desire, between our public and private selves. My life is richer for having read this book. Yours will be too.
Little Rabbit turned me inside out and left me utterly in awe. This daring exploration of the boundaries between desire and obliteration will have you asking who is in control. A fearless portrayal of a young writer shaping her life and art, even as they collide.
Eviscerating. Sophisticated. So incredibly hot.
All stars
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so i picked this up thinking it was a nice story about a woman discovering her desires for this random man but i was sooo disappointed. i felt like the author didn’t give enough reasoning or built enough character development for us to understand why this independent young assertive queer woman would wanna be in a super imbalanced relationship with an old dude where she is submissive. the sex scenes were also not giving AT ALL like if you’re gonna write a novel about desire why are your sex scenes giving sahara desert?? anyways i also DESPISED annie like if the goal of her character was to awake this feeling of pure rage inside of the reader then the author succeeded.

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