Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
Rabbit is Rich is book number three in a five book series about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, once a high school basketball star. It is highly advisable to read Run, Rabbit and Rabbit Redux before Rabbit Is Rich since they set the stage for Harry's progression through the decades. In Run, Rabbit, Harry is 26 years old, father to a toddler and husband to Janice, who is overwhelmed and bored by the mundane life of a housewife and mother. Harry feels bored and trapped and must decide between what is best for himself and what is best for the family. Needless to say, he often makes the wrong choices as does his wife, resulting in catastrophic consequences for the family. In Rabbit Redux, set 10 years later in 1969, Janice leaves Harry, and he brings a young hippie runaway white girl and a slightly older black man consumed by politics and religion into his suburban home. All three books take place in a small town in Pennsylvania. In book 3, Harry is prosperous and happy ...