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Rabbit Moon

A Novel

by Jennifer Haigh
Katharine Chin
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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

Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit and run accident. At a Shanghai hospital they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

The accident unearths a deeper fissure in the family: the shocking event that ended the Litvaks' marriage and turned Lindsey against them. Estranged from her parents, she has confided only in her younger sister, Grace, adopted as an infant from China. As Claire and Aaron struggle to get their bearings in bustling, cosmopolitan Shanghai, the newly prosperous "miracle city," they face troubling questions about Lindsey's life there, in which nothing is quite as it seems.

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 time and space.
"Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo." ― The New York Times

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  • Release date

    April 1, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9781668646694
      • File size: 250191 KB
      • Duration: 08:41:12

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2025

      Award-winning and bestselling Haigh (Mercy Street) sets her newest in Shanghai, where a hit-and-run crash begins unspooling the secrets and traumas of a family consisting of bitterly divorced Claire and Aaron, their youngest daughter Grace, adopted as an infant from China, and 22-year-old Lindsey, now fighting for her life in a hospital bed. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      March 1, 2025
      It is early Sunday morning in Shanghai's deserted financial district when a car careens around the corner and strikes Lindsey Litvak. The hit-and-run leaves the 22-year-old in a coma and her family searching for answers. Why was she living hundreds of miles from Beijing, where she told them she was teaching English? Why is the closet in her sparse apartment filled with designer dresses and high heels? As Lindsey's divorced parents seek information and her 11-year-old sister, away at summer camp, awaits word from the hospital, layers of family history are revealed in this engrossing novel. Before Lindsey dropped out of college and moved to China, where the Litvaks had gone to adopt her sister years earlier, she had a teenage affair with a married man. That relationship and its sudden end are at the core of the secrets threatening to tear this family apart. Capturing both the possibilities of reinvention and the scars carried from a traumatic past, Haigh's (Mercy Street, 2022) searing novel examines the interplay between choice and chance.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrators Katharine Chin and Yu-Li Alice Shen transport listeners with their portrayals of complex characters in this literary audiobook. American Lindsey Litvak, age 22, is fighting for her life in a Shanghai hospital after a hit-and-run accident. Her divorced parents rush to China to be by her side, but they don't speak the language and struggle to navigate their new surroundings. Chin, who serves as the third-person narrator, captures the story's strong sense of place and the tension in the complex family relationships as the story jumps between the present and past. Shen narrates the final chapter through the perspective of Lindsey's adopted younger sister, Grace. Her mature portrayal imbues Grace with depth and emotional growth. A compelling character-driven family drama. V.T.M. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine
    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2025
      Haigh's latest novel begins with a hit-and-run in Shanghai and ends with a Christmas wedding in Boston, and in between those events, a family is rattled, upended, and--maybe?--healed. The accident victim is 22-year-old Lindsey Litvak, who left college to travel to China with her boyfriend, their plan to teach English and immerse themselves in the culture. The boyfriend returned home, but Lindsey remained. When her divorced parents, Claire and Aaron, get the call that their daughter has been seriously injured, they fly to Shanghai to try to piece together what happened and will her back to health. Meanwhile, Lindsey's 11-year-old sister, Grace--adopted by Claire and Aaron as an infant from China--weathers the storm at her summer camp, wondering why Lindsey hasn't responded to her texts, unaware of her parents' anguish. As Claire and Aaron battle hospital bureaucracy, a language barrier, and their own guilt and fear, Haigh revisits the events that put Lindsey on that dark, late-night street and reveals the rift between parents and daughter that kept Lindsey on the other side of the world. Haigh draws a strong character sketch of Grace, who slowly awakens to the ramifications of her Chinese background. Lindsey feels less fully formed, her actions contradictory. What happens to her in Shanghai is predictable, and yet her youthful na�vet� about matters of the heart and the darker side of human nature seem at odds with the ease with which she embraces her new life. Haigh's message here, beyond highlighting the pain of family estrangement, is perplexing. "We live at the intersection of causality and chance," an older Grace muses at the novel's end, a conclusion too superficial to leave much of an impression. A novel about family estrangement that relies too often on the obvious.

      COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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