Fame and fortune await Ella under Laura’s tutelage.īut just as Ella is about to meet her new literary patron, Laura disappears.
The society has produced the most successful, prominent writers in Finnish literature and had remained at nine members for decades before Laura tapped Ella for inclusion.
Her prospects improve, however, when world-famous Laura White selects her as the 10th member of the exclusive Rabbit Back Literature Society. Ella’s sputtering career, her diagnosis of sterility, a broken engagement, and her father’s worsening Alzheimer’s all point to a gloomy future. A string of short-term teaching jobs has led to her living under her parents’ roof once again and substitute teaching at the very high school from which she graduated. Likewise, Jääskeläinen’s heroine, Ella Milana, is a seemingly vulnerable young woman who surprises the reader with the methods she uses to plumb the mysteries of Rabbit Back.Īn aspiring writer, Ella finds herself stuck at home after university. This small, snowy town, however, harbors elements of darkness: physical violence, psychological manipulation, and deep, dark secrets kept over a lifetime.
Its setting is Rabbit Back, a sleepy Finnish village whose main export has been literary - trolls and elves and other creatures made famous by the fictional author/phenom Laura White. Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen’s The Rabbit Back Literature Society is a study in contrasts.
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