REVIEWS
The politics of kink
When BDSM is brought up in a cultural context it is impossible to not feel the spirit of Fifty Shades of Grey haunting the conversation: the book and film series with poor kink representation that set us back decades in the discourse.
Thankfully Alyssa Songsiridej’s Little Rabbit couldn’t be further from this misrepresentation, and stands more in line with Mary Gaitskill’s Secretary and Saskia Vogel’s Persuasion as it expertly dives into the messy relationship between perception and desire.
Songsiridej’s debut novel follows Rabbit – as she is endearingly named by her lover – a bisexual writer in her early 30s who meets and becomes quickly infatuated with the choreographer, a 50-year-old man who is far from her regular type.
Rabbit’s parents are shocked by the age gap, while her queer friends can’t quite believe that she’s getting serious about a man – and that’s before the bruises start to show.
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