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The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more different from the other members of her master's program at New England's elite Warren University. A self-conscious scholarship student who prefers the company of her imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight it seems their bodies might become permanently fused.
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' exclusive monthly "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn as if by magic to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, an audacious art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into Bunny world, and starts to take part in the off-campus "Workshop" where they devise their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision.
A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale about loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and female friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author with tremendous "insight into the often-baffling complexities of being a woman" (The Atlantic).
About this Author
MONA AWAD is the author of Bunny, named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. It is currently under option for film with Bad Robot Productions. Awad's first novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of the Colorado Book Award. Her third novel, All's Well, was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. Rouge is currently optioned for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. She teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.
Reviews
A Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and Vancouver Sun Best Book of Summer
One of:
CBC's "Most Anticipated Books of Summer"
NOW's "Most Anticipated Books of Summer"
Loan Star's "Best of June"
Glam's "15 Spooky Reads To Get Into The Halloween Spirit"
Electric Literature's "10 Books that Celebrate Feral Girls"
"O Bunny you are sooo genius!"
--Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
"Bunny is a curioser Wonderland where vicious, rabidly entitled artists mix hare-brained potions, where sweet bunnies are terrifying swains, and where literature's newest and sexiest hybrid lurks. Hilarious and creepy with dead-on satire: I cannot think of a new book I like more."
--Lynn Crosbie
"Every time I open it up, I stumble upon a crackling sentence."
--The New York Times
"Mona Awad's precision is only matched by her wit as she mounts one of the most pristine, delightful attacks on popular girls since Clueless. Bunny made me cackle and nod in terrified recognition. You will be glued to your cashmere blanket."
--Lena Dunham, author of Not That Kind of Girl
"Prepare to go down the rabbit hole withthis weird and wonderful book."
--The Globe and Mail
"Gripping [and] frenetically readable . . .In this exploration of how women's repressed rageand desires can manifest, Awad weaponizescuteness in a ferocious and dynamic way."
--Quill and Quire, STARRED REVIEW
"Like one of those razors marketed to women: you know, pink but still GD dangerous."
--Elle
"Bunny is a kind of pastel-toned goth lit, an examination of what happens when 'soft' femininity meets the tougher kind--but one that also recognizes how blurry the distinction can be . . . This isn't your garden-variety-or even your rabbit-hutch-view of feminist sisterhood . . . It's a spiritual cousin to Stephen King's Carrie."
--TIME
"Mona Awad lets femininity bare its fangs."
--Toronto Star
"To call this a dark comedy undersells the richness of its message, and to say it's a satire misses its realism. Bunny is so sharp it will leave you bloody."
--Vulture
"A viciously funny bloodbath . . . Awad gleefully pumps up the novel's nightmarish quality until the boundary between perception and reality has all but dissolved completely. It's clear that Awad is having fun here--the proof is in the gore--and her delight is contagious . . . Wickedly sharp . . . A near-perfect realization of a singular vision."
--Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
"Outstanding . . . highly addictive, darkly comedic . . . Awad will have readers racing to find out how it all ends--and they won't be disappointed once the story reaches its wild finale. This is an enchanting and stunningly bizarre novel."
--Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
"Awad has proved herself one of the most innovative and original authors out there, and Bunny is a wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel."
--Los Angeles Times
"A work of toothsome and fanged intelligence."
--The New Yorker
"Deliciously evil . . . Awad is a stone-cold genius."
--The Washington Post
"The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body. This brilliant, sharp, weird book skewers the heightened rhetoric of obsessive female friendship in a way I don't think I've ever seen before. I loved it and I couldn't put it down."
--Kristen Roupenian, author of "Cat Person" and You Know You Want This
"Hilarious and subversive, magical and knife-sharp. This novel--a send-up of academia, an astute exploration of class in creative circles, and an ode to the uncanny power of art--confirms Mona Awad as one of our great chroniclers of what it means to be alive right now. Bunny is a stunner."
--Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel
"It is not an exaggeration to say that I devoured Bunny--teeth, fur, claws and all. Mona Awad has written a truly delectable novel that is equal parts wit, fancy, and wickedness. Unafraid to challenge some sacrosanct notions about women artists, female friendship, and writing, her book is a compulsively readable testament to the sheer creative force of loneliness and longing."
--Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Miss Hempel Chronicles
"Very funny and very sharp . . . An extremely readable page-turner."
--NPR's "Weekend Edition"
"[One of] the most cerebral and compulsively readable books of the season . . . This compelling novel about a mysterious grad school clique draws a bit of inspiration from Mean Girls or Heathers...before long, the novel takes a turn into the surreal, applying the logic of a horror movie to its incisive exploration of cruelty between young women."
--Vanity Fair
"Vivid [and] gripping . . . What makes it memorable, and powerful, is the coupling of its go-for-broke sendup with an immense compassion . . . For all its dagger-sharpness, Bunny has a tenderly accommodating heart."
--The Boston Globe
"It's creepy and it's kooky, mysterious and spooky, and you will not be able to put it down."
--The Washington Post
"A surreal, darkly funny take on art, power, and female friendships."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Exquisitely precise [and] funny as hell.'"
--The Boston Globe
"The weirdest novel you'll read this year . . . in the best way possible...With hints of Heathers and Mean Girls, I read Bunny in one night and was genuinely bummed when it was over."
--Cosmopolitan
"[A] dizzying tale of misandry, class anxiety, and psychological torment . . . Fans of sinister girl gangs, take heart!"
--Harper's Bazaar
"A dark, twisted novel that sharply interrogates women's relationships to one another and to art, academia, and class--it's the kind of book that leaves a taste in your mouth, the taste of blood. Who knew that would taste so good?"
--Nylon
"Mona Awad's prose is dangerous. She crafts beautiful meals laced with poison."
--The Paris Review
"With notes of Scream Queens and Heathers, Bunny takes readers into a twisted, terrifying cabal." --Newsweek
"[Bunny] quickly ascends to a Heathers level of camp without losing its grip on emotional reality . . . the struggle, shame, and frustration of making art rings true . . . enjoyable, insightful [and] compulsively readable."
--Ploughshares
"Awad's genius lies in her ability to take a familiar setup and turn it on its head--and then shake it and throw it off a cliff. That's how twisted Bunny gets."
--Purewow
"Tall, dark and culty."
--TheSkimm
"If you've ever been the odd one out, read Bunny."
--Refinery29
"[A] riotous, pitch-black novel . . . [Awad's] sheer panache powers you through the hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery."
--The Daily Mail
"Gripping [and] unique."
--InStyle
"The Secret History meets Heathers with a dash of Mean Girls. You're gonna love it."
--HelloGiggles
"[A] clever, contemplative, truly absurd campus novel that manages to strike to the truth of things with a hot blade of magic."
--LitHub
"[Awad] has a wicked sense of humor . . . The energy in her writing is truly infectious, and it's a lot of fun to go with her down the rabbit hole."
--Washington Independent Review of Books
"Bunny is the lovechild of Otessa Moshfegh's Eileen and Donna Tartt's The Secret History after a chance meeting at a midnight showing of Heathers . . . Dark but hilarious, quirky yet insightful, and at times just flat out weird, Bunny is the perfect anti-beach read for those of us who spend summer dreading the outside, opting to stay in burning scented candles with our curtains drawn and our white noise machine set to 'thunder storm.'"
--Napa Valley Register
"[A] riveting and often funny tale about the dark side of female seduction."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Social acceptance, female friendship, the coming-of-age process . . . it's all ripe for the discussion here."
--Bustle
"Astonishingly self-assured...Awad's writing is somehow both gorgeous and gritty as she explores creativity, art and the universal desire to belong."
--BookPage
"Sharp and utterly bonkers; think Heathers gone to grad school."
--Booklist
"A dark, dazzling fairy tale . . . A touching story of true-versus-faux friendship that many women will relate to is at the heart of this novel, but fans of the occult will find plenty to love about the Bunnies' sci-fi-adjacent ritual experimentation. As if grad school needed to get any scarier."
--Vogue, "The Best Novels of 2019"
"Strange, gothic and viciously entertaining."
--The Irish Times
"The Vegetarian meets Carrie meets Mean Girls in this deliciously dark tale about toxic female friendships, academia and class."
--BookRiot, "7 of the Buzziest Beach Reads of the Year"
"A highly original, dark, gothic novel, at once exuberantly weird and extremely funny".
--The Bookseller
"A brilliant, utterly unique peek into the dark side of female friendship."
--Sunday Independent (UK)
"[A] dark story that defies categorization."
--Library Journal
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