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Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej

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challenging tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A nameless writer meets an esteemed choreographer at a residency retreat.  After months of no contact, he invites her to his dance company’s show in Boston, her home.  She is dazzled–by him, by the dancers, the art.  He is fifty-one; her thirty, queer.  The writer’s experimental novel hasn’t attracted attention, her work is unfulfilling, her best friend and roommate–another queer female writer–has an agent.  As their friendship crumbles, power shifts.  The choreographer consumes the writer, pulling her out of herself bit by bit until she is unrecognizable–until she is his.  An unsettling and breathless story about power, jealousy, submission, and art.

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