Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit - by Nadine Sander-Green (Paperback)

About the Book

"Millicent is a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to work for a failing daily newspaper. With winter looming and the Yukon descending into darkness, Millicent begins a relationship with Pascal, an eccentric and charming middle-aged filmmaker who lives on a converted school bus in a Walmart parking lot. What begins as a romantic adventure soon turns toxic, and Millicent finds herself struggling not to lose herself and her voice. Events come to a head at Thaw di Gras, a celebration in faraway Dawson City marking the return of light to the north. It's here, in a frontier mining town filled with drunken tourists, eclectic locals, and sparkling burlesque dancers, that Millicent must choose between staying with Pascal or finally standing up to her abuser. In the style of Ottessa Moshfegh's honest exploration of dysfunctional relationships, and with the warmth and energy of Heather O'Neill, Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit illuminates what it's like to be young, impulsive, and in love in one of the harshest environments in the world."--

Book Synopsis

A young woman's coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal--set against the stark landscape of the far north

Millicent is a shy twenty-four-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to work for a failing daily newspaper. With winter looming and the Yukon descending into darkness, Millicent begins a relationship with Pascal, an eccentric and charming middle-aged filmmaker who lives on a converted school bus in a Walmart parking lot. What begins as a romantic adventure soon turns toxic, and Millicent finds herself struggling not to lose herself and her voice.

Events come to a head at Thaw di Gras, a celebration in faraway Dawson City marking the return of light to the north. It's here, in a frontier mining town filled with drunken tourists, eclectic locals, and sparkling burlesque dancers, that Millicent must choose between staying with Pascal or finally standing up to her abuser.

In the style of Ottessa Moshfegh's honest exploration of dysfunctional relationships, and with the warmth and energy of Heather O'Neill, Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit illuminates what it's like to be young, impulsive, and in love in one of the harshest environments in the world.

Review Quotes

"Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit is raw and exquisite. A haunting story about the claustrophobia inherent in obsession and loneliness, and one woman's journey to find and create purpose. Sander-Green's intimate, atmospheric prose invokes a setting both unfamiliar and bewitching that readers won't soon forget." -- Deborah Hemming, author of Goddess and Throw Down Your Shadows

"Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit is an emotionally affecting, entirely believable portrait of a strong young person succumbing to and nearly losing herself in someone else. In its skilful braiding of the personal, the political, and even the ecological, this is a meditation on the potentially devastating effects of power and control." -- Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander and Ridgerunner

"I love Nadine Sander-Green's decision to send a novice reporter to the Yukon. What is Millicent escaping, and what does she hope to find? This ain't Jack Nicholson exposing the underbelly of Chinatown--but something similar occurs, though what's uncovered is more inchoate and inside us all: the threat of loss. And loss--of love and land--is always startling. The wonder of Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit is there's room for an ending that makes sense of a friend's words: 'you've turned into someone I don't know.' The full gamut of life's ironies is here, from the absence of tundra swans to the ubiquity of dirty bird hot chicken. Nadine Sander-Green has managed to create a wise and powerful novel out of an achingly present portrait of an urban north that lies within all of us." -- Michael Winter, author of Minister Without Portfolio

"Nadine Sander-Green writes with verve and clarity about life in the Yukon, a place not seen often enough on the page. We root for Millicent, a young reporter growing up fast, to find her agency, pull free of the vortex of her relationship, and take in the expansive complexities of life and land around her. Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit is a wise, exuberant, page-turning read." -- Catherine Bush, author of The Rules of Engagement and Blaze Island

"With Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit, Nadine Sander-Green has written a wonderfully compelling novel about a young newspaper reporter who strives to form a meaningful bond with the people and politics of Yukon, while struggling to break free from a toxic man. I rooted and prayed for Millicent, the young protagonist, every step of the way. A rich rendering of Whitehorse and Dawson City, and of courage in the face of love gone wrong."
-- Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and The Illegal

"[An] engrossing first novel." - Winnipeg Free Press

"This book perfectly captures the loneliness and struggle that exists in the search for joy, when you are young, not knowing where to find it." -- The Miramichi Reader

"Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit is a provocative coming-of-age story in which a budding journalist reckons with love, isolation, and issues of personal identity." -- Foreword

"A compelling, quiet, and intense story about isolation, identity, and finding oneself in the face of abuse and hardship." -- Library Ladies

"A contemplative story with a gratifying conclusion ... Readers might feel their throats tighten and stomachs shrink at the mere thought of the domineering antagonist. And Sander-Green's realistic portrayal of a newbie journo who pushes north to pursue a media career offers provocative insights on a path many reporters have taken." -- Literary Review of Canada

"Sander-Green shows that a quiet novel doesn't have to be a simple one." -- Toronto Star

"Through Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit, Sander-Green pulls together many intriguing and image-rich threads that portray what it's like to inhabit a remote pocket of Canadian society." -- The British Columbia Review