MixedThe Women\'s Review of BooksAfter being drawn in by The Hare’s innocuous looking seafoam green, rose- adorned cover, I was surprised at the violence in its pages ... excels in the vivid images Finn uses to draw a contrast between such everyday gore and seemingly more nefarious events. Throughout the novel, Finn manages to balance pairs of contrasting images, one extraordinary, one mundane, in order to highlight the menace just below the surface of everyday elements ... Rosie’s fast paced story exposes the dramatic brutality of ordinary life ... While righteous in her anger towards men and their apathy, at this point in the novel, I was waiting for Rosie’s feminism to grow from \'fuck you\' to \'fuck off\' and therefore beyond a definition of womanhood based on men’s actions. Finn invites a discussion of femininity and what it means to be a woman. Is it defined by what one has to endure? My hope for Rosie’s manifesto was for it to be constructive rather than reactive. Not only to aid in Rosie’s own integration and healing, but to move beyond such a strict gender binary ... my greatest wish for Rose was to experience womanhood as more than obligation and survival. I’m sure she thirsts for more.
