{"id":109242,"date":"2024-05-16T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/tess-gunty-purgatory-is-for-everyone-and-its-in-indiana\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:31:28","slug":"tess-gunty-purgatory-is-for-everyone-and-its-in-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/en\/tess-gunty-purgatory-is-for-everyone-and-its-in-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Gunty: Purgatory is for everyone and it&#8217;s in Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, in the middle of the rust belt, Tess Gunty revolted against the caricature portrayal made by politicians of a failed, unsophisticated state, where there are only angry people who vote for Donald Trump, to create the 2022 National Book Award-winning novel, <em>&#8216;The Rabbit<\/em> Hutch&#8217;.<\/h3>\n<p>On May 15th, the American writer Tess Gunty, was hosted by FLAD, for a conversation with P\u00daBLICO journalist Isabel Lucas, for the Meet the Author \u2013 Meetings with American Writers series. 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