Kiley Reid's debut novel is a fast-paced, biting and nuanced examination of race, privilege, careers and parenthood in modern day America. Set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both, the book reads like schematic social satire. Not an altogether perfect novel but a very accessible one, a page-turner even, that illuminates many difficult truths about race, society, and power and does so with a good dose of charm and wit.



We know that a writer experiencing a breakdown and ending up in a psychiatric facility doesn't scream hilarious but in author Binnie Kirshenbaum's care it can be! Her first novel in 10 years, Rabbits for Food begins on New Year’s Eve when Bunny —an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer— fully unravels. What's so impressive about this book is that the humour does not negate the gravity of the material nor does it trivialise it. Rather it shows Bunny in a raw light and crafts a compassionate portrait of what it's like to struggle to survive. Come for the fierce and funny writing and stay for the astute insights into psychiatry. A modern day, New York based One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.