Rabbit Moon

“Jennifer Haigh renders her characters and contemporary Shanghai with compelling richness and exhilarating precision. This taut, devastating novel about a young woman’s dark fate–at once avoidable and inexorable–will remain with you long after you put it down.”–Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History“While Haigh has captured Shanghai in a way that seems as if she knew it for more than three months, her story–part mystery, part psychological thriller–could have taken place anywhere in the world: all of her characters come together through chance meetings, a message that is universal.”–Asian Review of Books“Haigh’s achievement in Rabbit Moon is to combine the intellectual heft of a philosophical novel with the readerly pleasures of a thriller…Haigh has an acute appreciation of moral ambiguity, especially regarding wounded characters who struggle to find a way forward. Honest about self-destruction but optimistic about redemption, Haigh’s novel ponders the big questions but doesn’t settle for the faux comfort of easy answers.”–Chapter 16“A tense tale of secrets, estrangement and self-discovery.”–People Magazine“I ripped hungrily through Rabbit Moon… impressive for its scope, ambition, vibrant characters and its unsettlingly graphic, resonant story.”–Joan Frank, Washington Post“A portrait, told in time jumps, of a family fractured by nothing so much as their own profoundly human flaws.”–NPR“Capturing both the possibilities of reinvention and the scars carried from a traumatic past, Haigh’s searing novel examines the interplay between choice and chance.”–Booklist“A gripping novel of suspense, infused with great empathy.”–Library Journal (starred review)“Haigh keeps this family drama firing on all cylinders, and she succeeds at capturing Shanghai’s dizzying effect on her characters. Readers will be transported.”–Publishers Weekly“Gripping, propulsive and entirely credible, Rabbit Moon succeeds in multiple dimensions and gets Shanghai right. Brava!”–Gish Jen, author of Thank you, Mr. Nixon

Jennifer Haigh is the author of seven best-selling, critically acclaimed works of fiction. Her first, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her latest, Mercy Street, was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker and won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. A Guggenheim fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives in Boston.