From the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street, a tense, propulsive family drama set in Shanghai, where a fractured American family faces its complicated past.
With her trademark psychological acuity, Jennifer Haigh delivers a taut, suspenseful story about family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, the fabled red thread that ties them together across space and time.
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
A gripping novel of suspense, infused with great empathy.
—Library Journal (starred review)
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
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street, a tense, propulsive family drama set in Shanghai, where a fractured American family faces its complicated past.
With her trademark psychological acuity, Jennifer Haigh delivers a taut, suspenseful story about family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, the fabled red thread that ties them together across space and time.
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
A gripping novel of suspense, infused with great empathy.
—Library Journal (starred review)
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
"I ripped hungrily through Rabbit Moon... impressive for its scope, ambition, vibrant characters and its unsettlingly graphic, resonant story."
—Washington Post
“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
“Gripping, propulsive, and entirely credible, Rabbit Moon succeeds in multiple dimensions and gets Shanghai right. Brava!”
—Gish Jen, author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon