2022年11月4日 · The Rabbit Hutch is an affordable housing complex in fictitious Vacca Vale, Indiana, where Blandine lives with three teenaged boys who, like Blandine, have just aged out of foster care: Todd, Malik, and Jack, who is “wound to the wrong moral time zone.”

2022年8月18日 · Vacca Vale is a deeply American setting, a Rust Belt town since abandoned by the car manufacturers that put it on the map. The inhabitants of the Rabbit Hutch love it and loathe it, long to escape and can’t see a way out.

2022年7月21日 · Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Vacca Vale, Indiana, The Rabbit Hutch revolves around the residents of a run-down apartment building, once ambitiously bestowed the French name, La Lapinière Affordable Housing Complex, by the philanthropist who funded its development. But now after the Zorn Automobile factories are long gone, the city ...

2022年12月1日 · The Rabbit Hutch, set over three days during a hot July, describes the lives of residents of a low-income apartment complex in the fictional Rust Belt city of Vacca Vale, Indiana. The community has many similarities to South Bend, including a vacant automotive factory that gutted the community economically when the company shut down.

2022年8月5日 · Apartment C4 nestles within a run-down complex in Vacca Vale, Indiana, a fictional city (though perhaps a nod to California’s infamous Vacaville) long ago abandoned by its primary industry, Zorn Automobiles. Vacca Vale is now …

2022年8月4日 · Sitting on the laundromat bench, Blandine tries to uncramp her muscles, clip herself from her body, and focus on the slobber of the machines. A dull financial angst pounds around her kidneys. She thinks of the urban revitalization plan that is about to destroy the last good thing in Vacca Vale: a lush expanse of park called Chastity Valley.

2023年6月26日 · The novel is set over the course of one formidably hot July week in Vacca Vale, Indiana, and it follows the story of the mysterious and beautiful Blandine, culminating in a shocking and strange act of violence. Gunty will receive the award during a public event at Virginia Commonwealth University on Nov. 13.

Vacca Vale’s fate will be familiar to those who know the history of the Rust Belt, an area spanning from New York State to the Midwest. In the early 20th century, this area was known as the Manufacturing Belt for its prowess in the automotive and …

2022年8月23日 · The Rabbit Hutch is an affordable housing complex in Vacca Vale, Indiana, a post-industrial city deep in the US’s Rust Belt. In apartment C12 an ageing logger scrolls through his one-star...

Catholicism is an important motif in Gunty’s novel, appearing both in the town and in the characters’ beliefs. Much like Gunty’s native South Bend, Indiana, Vacca Vale is a very Catholic town. We learn that St. Jadwiga’s church was constructed in the 1800s by Polish and German immigrants but has a more medieval French-seeming rose window.