Rabbit, Run

John Updike, 1960

Date read: 11/4/23

Every single person in this novel is horrid and I would run too.

Everybody is cruel. Everybody is selfish. Also nobody says anything directly and as a thrice-diagnosed autistic person it fucked with me, trying to understand what was really going on.

Also there's a lot of sex which is pretty graphic for a novel read in high schools.

I'm not sure why this is considered such a classic. It's just people being awful and [spoiler] both child neglect/abuse and the death of a week old infant [/spoiler].

Overall I wished Rabbit would just run further away from all these horrible people, but he is horrible too so...

Length: 264 pages in paperback

Rereadbility: this whole thing is like an episode of Maury Povich so nah

Classic: ????