T3 #21 Tess Gunty

Tess Gunty´s debut novel The Rabbit Hutch (in Pt: “O Contrário de Nada”), won the 2022 National Book Award for fiction, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, it was a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre. Let’s learn a little more about this talented author and take a peek at some of her favorite reads. The books Tess chose for our conversation: Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad; Hurricane Season (Pt: “Temporada de furacões”), Fernanda Melchor; Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin; Concerning the Future of souls - 99 stories of Azrael, Joy Williams. Other recommendations: Tolstoy and George Eliot; 99 stories of God, Joy Williams; Que Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams (Novel); The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams (Short stories); The Changeling, Joy Williams. (Tess was listening to The Snowman, Joe Nesbo) I recommended: Flannery O´Connor; King Kong theory (and others), Virginie Despentes. Here are the books: www.wook.pt