Overview
*SLJ Best Book of the Year* *Kirkus Best Book of the Year* ""Toothsome, smart, and darkly glittering, Rabbit & Juliet is a tour de force and one of my favorite reads of the year."" --Brittany Cavallaro, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Charlotte Mixing the complicated queer love from People Like Us and the dark snark of Do Revenge--with searing commentary on misogyny and rape culture à la The Female of the Species--Pushcart Prize-winning author Rebecca Stafford wraps a haunting story inside an irreverent contemporary novel about agency, grief, and toxic first loves. Seventeen-year-old Rabbit has been struggling to stay above water since her mom died. In the span of a year and half, her small Georgia town has become unbearably hellish: Her ex-boyfriend, resident golden boy Richard, turned into an unrelenting stalker; her friends are nonexistent; and her dad is campaigning hard for Functioning Alcoholic of the Year. But all that changes when the sarcastic, gorgeous, and frustratingly impenetrable Juliet Bergman walks into Rabbit's life. All hard angles and James Dean bravado, Juliet throws Rabbit a life preserver just before her depression threatened to sink her. Then one morning, Rabbit's ex-best-friend Sarah--Richard's current girlfriend--shares a horrific discovery about Richard and his crew that pitches Rabbit back into darkness. The three girls vow to enact revenge on the boys for what they've been doing to unsuspecting girls at parties. With Juliet leading the charge and demanding blind loyalty from the girls, Rabbit falls harder for her than she thought possible. It isn't until Rabbit is faced with a startling act of violence that she must decide how far she's willing to go--for herself, for Juliet, and for justice--when love and grief threaten to topple everything.
Full Product Details
Author: Rebecca Stafford
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: Collins
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780063351363
ISBN 10: 0063351366
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Powerful and provocative, Stafford explores toxic relationships in all their forms. A deep dive that asks what's right, what's wrong, and who is trustworthy."" -- --Mindy McGinnis, Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species"
"""Toothsome, smart, and darkly glittering, RABBIT & JULIET is a tour de force and one of my favorite reads of the year."" -- --Brittany Cavallaro, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Charlotte ""Powerful and provocative, Stafford explores toxic relationships in all their forms. A deep dive that asks what's right, what's wrong, and who is trustworthy."" -- --Mindy McGinnis, Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species ""Rebecca Stafford perfectly captures the obsession, passion, violence, and wry wit of teenage girlhood in her powerhouse YA debut. Rabbit & Juliet is a rare, dark gem."" -- ----Kit Frick, author of I Killed Zoe Spanos"
Author Information
Rebecca Stafford is a Pushcart Prize award-winning poet, writer, critic, and editor whose work has been published in the New Yorker and reviewed in the New York Times. Rabbit and Juliet is her debut young adult novel. To learn more about Rebecca's distinguished body of work, visit her online at rebeccastaffordauthor.com.
