May 2024
How extraordinary this book is–dreamy and gritty, restless and free. Like dress, the Mexico in these stories is a series and voices, rendered for us with a poet’s utter attention–and like the rabbit in the moon, the stories sk us what can be seen and not seen. A rare and wonderful collection.
Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness
Rabbit in the Moon is, perhaps, Karen Brennan’s most cinematic collection but, like her others, it is also extraordinarily moving and often laugh-out-loud funny. The volume is turned up, the colors, more saturated. We, with the unnamed narrator, wander through the dreamscape, feeling slightly untethered, longing to belong. We meet the quirkiest of characters, but they are also often heart-breaking; the dialog reveals how we always just miss understanding one another; as the characters’ perceptions change, so do ours. “Life is full of poorly timed catastrophes, says the Maestro finally. That’s what I love about it.” And that’s what I love about this book: it’s luminous.
Beth Alvarado, author of Jillian and the Borderlands