Rabbits for Food - Tapa dura

A bitingly funny, and occasionally heartbreaking, look at mental illness, love and relationships, with Kirshenbaum's familiar black humor. (The New York Times)

Breaks down the mental breakdown into disquieting bite-sized pieces. It's fast-paced and turbulent, but beautifully complex, and the details are stunning. (Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout)

Binnie Kirshenbaum is an unflinching teller of truths. She's also sublimely funny. Rabbits for Food shows this immensely gifted writer at the height of her powers. (Jenny Offill)

Binnie Kirshenbaum has hit her considerable stride in Rabbits for Food. This novel is compulsive reading; it's wonderfully paced, explosively funny and witty, and very, very wise about many grave things--but mostly about merely being human. (Richard Ford)

Kirshenbaum's portrait of intractable depression is acerbic, heartbreaking, and improbably hilarious. (People)

Astounding . . . Readers will quickly commit to this extraordinary novel. Laser-sharp prose, compelling observations, and an engaging, sympathetic central figure conspire to make it a page-turner. Rabbits for Food is an impressive achievement. It should be read as soon as possible. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

A joy-giving and hilarious letter from the realm of despair. Also, somehow, a gentle love story. Marvelous and beautiful. (Rivka Galchen)

Funny, tender and heartbreaking, often in the same line, Rabbits for Food is a remarkable examination of the fault lines that run through us all. Wit and anger jostle for space with constant intelligence and subversiveness.

(Tash Aw)

An intensive character study of a woman on the verge of a breakdown-written with distinctive relentlessness and the compassion that Kirshenbaum has cultivated for all her characters across six previous novels. (Guernica)

A burst of energy . . . our narrator examines her surroundings-the eccentric patients and doctors, the absurd daily activities, the Kafkaesque system-with a blunt and biting wit. (BuzzFeed Books)