Tess Gunty's National Book Award -winning novel The Rabbit Hutch features residents of a low-cost housing complex attempting to build a life while the city decays around them: an online obituary writer, a mysterious young mother, a resident with a vendetta against vermin, and an uncommon young woman cohabiting with other teenagers who have aged out of the foster care system. Collectively they search for meaning in a world that seems determined to wear them down.

Gunty will be in conversation with Ben Fountain.