Press Reviews

• Ling Ma, author of SEVERANCE

  A darkly sensuous tale of awakening that will quietly engulf you in flames

• Carmen Maria Machado, author of IN THE DREAM HOUSE

  A deeply empathetic and horny novel-a love letter to bottoming and being an artist and following yourself to the end of everything

• Jessamine Chan, author of THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS

  Little Rabbit is a glorious debut-riveting, soulful, cerebral, and the sexiest novel I've ever read. In this story about ambition, power, art-making, and the pursuit of beauty, Alyssa Songsiridej thrillingly interrogates the conflict between reason and desire, between our public and private selves. My life is richer for having read this book. Yours will be too

• Sanaë Lemoine, author of THE MARGOT AFFAIR

  Little Rabbit turned me inside out and left me utterly in awe. This daring exploration of the boundaries between desire and obliteration will have you asking who is in control. A fearless portrayal of a young writer shaping her life and art, even as they collide

• Rachel Yoder, author of NIGHTBITCH

  Eviscerating. Sophisticated. So incredibly hot

• Alexandra Kleeman, author of SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

  Scintillating and seductive, almost unbearably perceptive, Little Rabbit announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice in literature, one who knows how to make the body sing

• Melissa Febos, author of GIRLHOOD

  What a hypnotic, sexy, smart, unputdownable book! It delves into so many of my favorite subjects: erotic obsession, art, friendship, and the slippery and surprising nature of selfhood

• Courtney Maum, author of THE YEAR OF THE HORSES

  A fierce and utterly compelling look at the nearly biological instinct to nurture a love affair, even when that love isn't understood by others, and it blows your world apart. Little Rabbit is a totally absorbing debut: nuanced, intelligent, and sexy as hell

• Chloé Cooper Jones, author of EASY BEAUTY

  Little Rabbit is a brilliant debut by a rare talent. Songsiridej writes with tremendous precision, intelligence, and insight about the complexities of desire-how it can prompt the impulse to empower, possess, erase, and recreate one's lover and oneself

• Hanna Halperin, author of SOMETHING WILD

  An exhilarating story of intense desire, creative ambition, sex, and power. Little Rabbit's honest exploration of kink, control, and sexual freedom obsessed and transported me. When I reached the final page, I was stunned

• Electric Literature

  Like a modern queer feminist Story of O, this nuanced exploration of desire and the unseen dance between the lover and the beloved sucks you into its lush, yet precisely-rendered reality, one edged with ambiguity regarding possession and power, perception and identity

• Vulture

  Alyssa Songsiridej's Little Rabbit shocked me. It tells truths about sex, the self, and art-making that I'd never seen on the page or even known the words to think before. It's bold, frightening, and magnificent, a work deserving of this honor and many more

• New York Times Book Review

  A worthy contemplation of sexual politics, revealing how losing and finding yourself do not have to be mutually exclusive

• goop

  It's the sexiest book we've read in a long time...a seductive, deeply complex exploration of power and agency, and lust and love. It rushes through you and leaves you stunned

• Books of the Year

  New Yorker

  An unusual, erotic tale ... Arresting

• Debutiful

  It's the first great novel of the summer

• Ms

  A sweetly shocking novel exploring identity, love, lust, friendship, art, pain and possession

• Observer

  Explores power dynamics and kink within an unexpected relationship with riveting nuance ... Little Rabbit arrives at just the right time, serving as a fearless inquiry into the power of bodies and intimacy

• Buzzfeed

  Little Rabbit refuses to play into tropes that to be submissive is to be inherently exploited, and is also a nuanced exploration of BDSM and power. It's hard to put down, sexy and not predictable

• San Francisco Chronicle

  This is a New York novel of simmering resentment, artist wannabes and successful artists, have-nots mocking the haves. Then a tantalizing queer confessional, where a bisexual woman writer is pulled to the kind of patriarchal male dancer she'd never spared a second for. Here the nearness of artistic fame is so palpable, you will desire it for the narrator nearly as much as she desires the consummation of her glittering S&M relationship. Skillfully and tautly drawn

• Red

  A really fascinating, sensual exploration of identity, creativity and what we sacrifice for love

• Big Issue

  Expertly dives into the messy relationship between perception and desire... the reader is left with a profoundly moving experience thanks to an author capable of navigating sexual politics without compromising on steamy scenes, leaving a flourishing heat on the page

• Glamour

  We all want some sun over August, and if you want some literary heat you have got to immediately order Little Rabbit. Do not make plans when it arrives as you will want to cancel everything to read this