Rabbits for Food

An acerbic, mordantly witty, clinically depressed writer unravels as her husband and friends dine out on New Year’s Eve and ends up in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital. She refuses all modes of recommended treatment and instead passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow “lunatics,” writing a novel about how she got to this place. Her story is both hilarious and harrowing, a deep dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, her examination of what it means to be unloved, to succeed, and fail; to be at once impervious and raw ultimately reveals how art can lead us out of ourselves.