Little Rabbit - Softcover

Songsiridej, Alyssa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349017891 ISBN 13: 9780349017891

Publisher: Virago, 2024

Synopsis

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

'Deeply empathetic and horny' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

'Will quietly engulf you in flames' LING MA

'So incredibly hot' RACHEL YODER

'Hypnotic, sexy, smart' MELISSA FEBOS

When she first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency, they don't hit it off. She finds him loud, conceited, domineering. He thinks her serious, guarded, too precious about her work. But when he invites her to watch his dance company perform, something shifts.

Their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding sexual boundaries. Over weekends sequestered at his summer house in upstate New York, her body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires quickly become inextricable from her pleasure - and her pain.

Back in Boston, her roommate's concern amplifies her own doubts about these heady weekend retreats. What does it mean for a young, queer woman to be with an older man? For a fledgling artist to attach herself to an established one? Is she following her own agency, or is she merely following him?

And does falling in love have to mean eviscerating yourself?

About this title

About the Author

Alyssa Songsiridej is an editor at Electric Literature. Her fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, the Indiana Review, The Offing, and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and has been supported by Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the VCCA and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Little Rabbit is her first novel. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, she lives in Philadelphia.

From the Back Cover

'A sweetly shocking novel exploring identity, love, lust, friendship, art, pain and possession' Ms

When she first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency, they don't hit it off. But when he invites her to watch his dance company perform, something shifts. Their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding sexual boundaries. Over weekends sequestered at his summer house in upstate New York, her body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires quickly become inextricable from her pleasure - and her pain.

Back in Boston, her roommate's concern amplifies her own doubts about these heady weekend retreats. What does it mean for a young, queer woman to be with an older man? For a fledgling artist to attach herself to an established one? And does falling in love have to mean eviscerating yourself?

'Bold, frightening and magnificent... Little Rabbit tells truths about sex, the self, and art-making that I'd never seen on the page' Vulture

'Hard to put down, sexy and not predictable' Buzzfeed

From the Inside Flap

When she first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency, they don't hit it off. She finds him loud, conceited, domineering. He thinks her serious, guarded, too precious about her work. But when he invites her to watch his dance company perform, something shifts.

Their interaction at the show sets off a summer of expanding sexual boundaries. Over weekends sequestered at his summer house in upstate New York, her body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires quickly become inextricable from her pleasure - and her pain.

Back in Boston, her roommate's concern amplifies her own doubts about these heady weekend retreats. What does it mean for a young, queer woman to be with an older man? For a fledgling artist to attach herself to an established one? Is she following her own agency, or is she merely following him?

And does falling in love have to mean eviscerating yourself?

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349017891
• ISBN 13: 9780349017891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256