The Girl Who Became a Rabbit

"Recursive, ambitious, strange and beautiful, this book-length lyric explores the way trauma and abuse make a creature of us, and asks what it's possible to become in their aftermath. I fell into this world of this book-its rabbits, and soft deer, sliced cow-eyes and wolves-the way you wade into a cold body of water, slowly and then all at once. I couldn't put it down. And, when I finished, I was changed." -Molly McCully Brown, author of Places I've Taken My Body, contest judge

"A delectably nimble collection, ranging in scope from the ordinary to the divine-and all points between. Emilie Menzel is a marvelous writer and cataloguer of what connects and estranges us from our lives." -Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

"If what you wish is to be for a while in a world that will inspire you to think playfully and with kindness and persistence and an openness to that which is not immediately beheld, you have found your book and your invitation to enter another world that happens to be in this one. Menzel works magic. I love this book." -Dara Barrois/Dixon, author of Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

"In this astonishing debut, Emilie Menzel employs logic as a poetics of longing and grief, a vital instrument untangling trauma and its aftermath. Her images are both seductive and unflinching, electrifying and terrifying. Her lyric is the elixir I wish I could gift anyone who's experienced girlhood." -Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures