Rabbit Redux is book two in Updike's four part Rabbit series. I wasn't a huge fan of the first book,Rabbit, Run but two of the other three won the Pulitzer so I thought I'd better read all four. This book was much better - equal parts ridiculous and delicious.
In the second book, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit has gone back to his wife after their child left. Eventually his wife leaves him for a local mobster and Rabbit is left to raise their 13 year old child. He ends up meeting an underage runaway girl whom he eventually brings home to live with him and his son. There's a bunch of weird sex things going on that I could do without; underage isn't really my thing.
Basically the rest of the book consists of the various trouble they get into. There's some heroin overdoses, some racial politics and a house burning down - not to mention a murder. It's really just an absurd story that made me laugh out loud more than once. It was also a story of change and redemption.
I highly recommend it and am excited to read the next 2 books in the series.
"It comes to him : Growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere."
8/10
YTD:
Books read : 9
Pages read : 2,518
Currently reading : Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson & Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
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