| The Rabbit Factory follows the colliding lives of, among others, Arthur, an older, socially ill-at-ease man of considerable wealth married to the much younger Helen, whose desperate need for satisfaction sweeps her into the arms of other men Eric, who has run away from home thinking his father doesn't want him and becomes Arthur's unlikely surrogate son Domino, an ex-con now involved in the drug trade, who runs afoul of a twisted cop and Anjalee, a big-hearted prostitute with her own set of troubles, who crashes into the lives of the others like a one-woman hurricane. Teeming with creations that include quirky gangsters, colorful locals, seemingly straitlaced professors, and fast-and-loose police officers, Brown tells a spellbinding and often hilarious story about the botched choices and missed chance that separate people - and the tenuous threads of love and coincidence that connect them. |