Bunny - Mona Awad

Bunny

By Mona Awad

  • Release Date: 2019-06-11
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 438 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Soon to be a major motion picture

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times


"Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post

The Vegetarian
meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge


"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark 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 seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. 

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Reviews

  • My copy only has 20 pages

    1
    By Spongebob7483&3&)38
    I bought the whole book but it only downloaded 20 pages. It was pretty good for those first 20 pages
  • DNF: Got to 63rd page

    1
    By Icannottttfindausernameeugh
    Not for me, hard to follow and too many descriptors. The characters were hard to follow along and blended together
  • Worst book I’ve ever read

    1
    By Resdoc
    I’m an avid and voracious reader and read novels from all genres. If someone were to ask me “What’s the worst book that you’ve ever read?”, this would be it. Utter rubbish!
  • Don’t get the good reviews

    2
    By baianne
    This book was most of the time boring; rantings from a jealous teen or pretentiously over the top writing trying to keep readers engaged. I’m surprised I even finished it, I guess I was waiting for some sort of a twist or crazy ending. I was left wanting more than what it was. I get everyone has different preferences, this one was just not mine.
  • Mind Absolutely BLOWN

    5
    By audfree.marie
    I picked up this book not knowing what rabbit hole I was about to plunge into. I am now a changed person.
  • Mind blowing indeed

    5
    By Glorfindella
    This book is equal parts brilliant and brutal and now my literary soul is flooded with feelings. Kudos to the author who somehow peered inside my weird little world and crafted a story seemingly just for me. This book will stay with me for quite a long time. A new favorite. 🐇🦌🦢
  • Refreshing tale of Rotting Femininity

    5
    By jordan ayyy
    After years of the same old Mean Girl-esque narratives, Bunny draws on the cruelty of young women towards other young women as the main motivation rather than misogynistic ideals. A dark, convoluted cooler older sister of Heathers
  • Incomparable

    5
    By DanieleRae
    I’ve never read anything like this and I don’t think I ever will again. “Bunny” blows it out of the water— if you are willing to suspend all disbelief and your sanity and just go with it.
  • Deranged magic

    5
    By Meeeeeerrrreeeee
    Hard to explain. Like walking around in someone’s ketamine adventure. Fun read… you don’t want to get to the end, you want to get to read it forever.
  • Wonderful read

    5
    By Audge717@gmail
    As a graduate student, this book was delightful to read. Absolutely loved it.