“According to Todd” is an all-illustrated chapter that depicts the climactic events of the novel through the eyes of the character Todd, a delinquent teenager confessing to a violent crime from prison through a series of kaleidoscopic drawings. The sequence is composed of three five-panel acts in which Todd’s imperfect memory and hallucinatory imagination are interwoven with elements of narratorial omniscience to create a dark, phantasmal reflection of the novel’s primary tragedy. The drawings are rendered in ink and paint marker on watercolor paper, and were developed in the summer of 2021. The originals are now part of Tess’s private collection.

The Rabbit Hutch won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.

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