Rabbit Cake

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Twelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn't yet know--like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother's silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother's death and finds comfort, if not answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom, Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief, family, and the endurance of humor after loss.

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Fantastic read! submitted by Mandarez on July 7, 2017, 7:32am This book was easy to get drawn into and has really taken me a long for the ride. Elvis is an intelligent 12 year old coping with the death of her mother and the unraveling of her whole family. We all deal with grief in different ways and Rabbit Cake covers a wide range of coping skills both useful and destructive While the topic is heavy the book is easy to read with lots of appeal and even some humor. Highly recommended read!

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