Tess Gunty´s debut novel The Rabbit Hutch (in Pt: “O Contrário de Nada”), won the 2022 National Book Award for fiction, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, it was a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre. Let’s learn a little more about this talented author and take a peek at some of her favorite reads.

The books Tess chose for our conversation:

Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad;

Hurricane Season (Pt: “Temporada de furacões”), Fernanda Melchor;

Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin;

Concerning the Future of souls - 99 stories of Azrael, Joy Williams.

Other recommendations:

Tolstoy and George Eliot;

99 stories of God, Joy Williams;

Que Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams (Novel);

The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams (Short stories);

The Changeling, Joy Williams.

(Tess was listening to The Snowman, Joe Nesbo)

I recommended:

Flannery O´Connor;

King Kong theory (and others), Virginie Despentes.

Here are the books:

www.wook.pt