The Hare, Melanie Finn
The Hare, Melanie Finn
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The Hare
A Novel

Author: Melanie Finn

Narrator: Melanie Finn

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/28/2021


Synopsis

Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother in a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, Rosie Monroe accepts a scholarship to art school in New York City in the 1980s. One morning at a museum, she meets a worldly man twenty years her senior, with access to the upper crust of New England society. Bennett is dashing, knows that "polo" refers only to ponies, teaches her which direction to spoon soup, and tells of exotic escapades with Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. Soon, Rosie is living with him on a swanky estate on Connecticut's Gold Coast, naively in sway to his moral ambivalence. A daughter—Miranda—is born, just as his current con goes awry forcing them to abscond in the middle of the night to the untamed wilderness of northern Vermont.

Almost immediately, Bennett abandons them in an uninsulated cabin without a car or cash for weeks at a time, so he can tend a teaching job that may or may not exist at an elite college. Rosie is forced to care for her young daughter alone, and to tackle the stubborn intricacies of the wood stove, snowshoe into town, hunt for wild game, and forage in the forest. As Rosie and Miranda's life gradually begins to normalize, Bennett's schemes turn malevolent, and Rosie must at last confront his twisted deceptions. Her actions have far-reaching and perilous consequences.

Contains mature themes.

About Melanie Finn

Melanie Finn was born and raised in Kenya until age eleven, when she moved with her family to Connecticut. She is the author of the novel Away from You and wrote Disneynature's beautiful, haunting flamingo epic The Crimson Wing, which was directed by her husband, filmmaker Matt Aeberhard. During the filming, Melanie established The Natron Healthcare Project, and now lives in Vermont with Matt and their twin daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Claire

With The Hare, Melanie Finn has written powerful story of female perseverance, strength, and resilience. This book has rare qualities: beautiful writing while being absolutely unputdownable, and I will be pressing it into the hands of every reader I know.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

The Hare is a beautifully written meditation on womanhood, resilience, and trauma, but it didn't always resonate with me. As a naive teenager, Rosie begins a relationship with the older and richer Bennett. Then, barely out of her teen years and caring for their infant daughter, Rosie is left in a de......more

Goodreads review by Rick

Between finishing The Hare and writing this review, I read a bunch of other reviews about it. There are some pretty negative ones out there revolving around two main things: the transphobic section and the portrayal of the characters. I will not deny that the transphobic part is jarring and feels to......more

via my blog:[URL not allowed] 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧. I devoured this novel and it certainly sat heavy in my gut. Standing witness to a young woman who hasn’t had the time nor experience to fully......more