Rabbit Cake
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Rabbit Cake
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Narrateur(s):
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Katie Schorr
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Auteur(s):
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Annie Hartnett
À propos de cet audio
Fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette and and Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You will delight in Annie Hartnett's debut, Rabbit Cake, 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 3,000 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 18 months. But there are things Elvis doesn't yet know—like 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. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief, family, and the endurance of humor after loss.
©2017 Annie Hartnett (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Recommended read
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For now why do I like this book? Everyone in the family is eccentric yet seems normal to me – and certainly totally human. The protaganist-narrator is a bright well-read 11 year-old, her sister a sleep walker who gets carted off to an asylum, their dad memorializes their mum by wearing their mum's lipstick and bathrobe around the house, and the mum probably killed herself. Yet there is nothing tragic or sentimental about any of the persons or events. Everything is related matter-of-fact.
I also like the way the actions although not the motivations of well-meaning adults are implied to be ridiculous. Lots of talk about death, sex and personal foibles.
charming, smiling my way through
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