“The Husband Stitch,” “Real Women Have Bodies,” and “Eight Bites” were my particular favorites, but this whole book is full of stories that show us the world we are living in.
“The Husband Stitch,” “Real Women Have Bodies,” and “Eight Bites” were my particular favorites, but this whole book is full of stories that show us the world we are living in.
First time in a long time that I finished a book in a day.
Only read this if you want to laugh so hard no sound comes out.
I particularly loved and identified with the chapter about healing.
The essay titled Pandora's Box and the Volunteer Police Force was what I needed after watching the news over the past few months.
I hated any time I had to put this book down.
I read this for the same reasons as everyone else: it's unusually relevant right now and I wanted to read it before watching the new series. This book did not disappoint.
It's been a long time since I've read a book in a weekend. Rabbit Cake is an engaging and funny exploration of grief.
Lauren Groff's language draws you in and doesn't let go.
Everyone was moved, and everyone was persuaded that being moved was the ultimate aesthetic, intellectual, and ethical experience. (Page 234)
I wonder if thoughts are fluid, and flow downward, from one person to another, within the same house.
I got two more days of magic out of this play, and that's all I could ever hope for⚡️
It's definitely more poetry than novel/novella, but the language hits home in just the right way.
Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.
Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.
I was so used to being alone. But I'd never been aware of so many other people, also alone.