![]() ![]() ![]() Hartnett knew she wanted to incorporate the substitute teacher and her students whom she envisioned, but it wasn’t quite clicking. ![]() Yet despite Rabbit Cake’s success, Hartnett couldn’t stop thinking about the other book she’d started at grad school. The witty, whimsical novel about a preteen girl grieving her mother’s death earned rave reviews and prestigious award nominations after its release, and there’s even a movie version, set to star Mckenna Grace, currently in the works from Amazon Studios. Upon graduation, however, she put the latter work aside to focus solely on Rabbit Cake, finishing the book in stints at the library and the Massachusetts bookstore where she worked. At the time, Hartnett was working steadily on Rabbit Cake while also musing on a new novel about a fifth-grade substitute teacher. It’s a tricky balance that the Rhode Island-based author has been honing since her days as an MFA student at the University of Alabama a decade ago. ![]()
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