Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered is a 2001 novella by John Updike, and a sequel to his "Rabbit" series. It first appeared in his collection of short fiction titled Licks of Love. Set in late 1999, it concerns itself with the interjection of the now deceased Harry Angstrom's illegitimate daughter, Annabelle, into the life of his middle-aged son Nelson, now separated from his wife Pru. Other key characters from the Rabbit series appear: Janice, Harry's widow who has married Harry's old nemesis Ronnie Harrison; Judy, Harry's granddaughter, now nineteen, who is planning to become a stewardess; and his fourteen-year-old grandson Roy, with whom Nelson communicates over email. Annabelle, a few months after the death of her mother Ruth, appears at Janice's...