—BETH HOFFMAN, New York Times best-selling author of
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and Looking for Me
“Gimlet-eyed, fiercely humane, resentfully tender, and wise-hearted Elvis is everything you could ever ask for in a heroine and then some. She is a superheroine, a supersuperheroine, infinity plus one, the perfect psychopomp to tell the story of one family’s moving and idiosyncratic way of grappling with grief.”
—KELLIE WELLS, author of Fat Girl, Terrestrial
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ANNIE HARTNETT was the 2013–14 winner of the Writer in Residence Fellowship for the Associates of the Boston Public Library and has received awards and honors from the Bread Loaf School of English, McSweeney’s, and Indiana Review. Hartnett received her MFA in fiction from the University of Alabama and an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She currently teaches at Grub Street, an independent writing center in Boston. Hartnett lives with her husband and their beloved border collie in Providence, Rhode Island.
Copyright © 2017 Annie Hartnett
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, contact Tin House Books, 2617 NW Thurman St., Portland, OR 97210.
Published by Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn, New York
Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Hartnett, Annie, author.
Title: Rabbit cake / by Annie Hartnett.
Description: First U.S. edition. | Portland, OR : Tin House Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016036583 (print) | LCCN 2016053926 (ebook) | ISBN 9781941040560 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781941040577 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sisters—Fiction. | Mothers—Death—Fiction. | Fathers and daughters—Fiction. | Family secrets—Fiction. | Alabama—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Psychological fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3608.A74936 R73 2017 (print) | LCC PS3608.A74936 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036583
First U.S. edition 2017
Interior design by Jakob Vala
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