📖 the rabbit hutch

i finished the rabbit hutch1 and (one of) my very first thoughts when closing it was “what a deeply human book.” it’s been hard for me to tell folks what the book is about because saying “it’s a book about people trying to survive in a post-industrial town in the midwest” feels reductive and, truly, that’s only a small portion of it. so, sure: it’s about surviving in the midwest, but it’s also about: curiosity, connection, and community; loneliness and relationships and how the suburbs exacerbate those same feelings; people surviving the best they can—the only ways they know how—under systems that were designed to fail them; building more high rises and chain stores and expecting capitalism to fix the problems it created, but high rises don’t create communities that help folks thrive—people do. it’s also about: people are always asked “what’s wrong with you” instead of “what happened to you?"; children who age out of the foster care system and have experienced so much pain—who have…