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. 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.

Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

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Reviews

• “Female Friendships Are the Best, Until They Aren’t” — Time
• “In Mona Awad’s ‘Bunny,’ squad goals include Pinkberry, creative writing and murder” — Los Angeles Times

Interviews

• “Monstrous Cute” — The Paris Review
• “Mona Awad, Author of “Bunny,” Is Kind of Terrified of Bunnies” — interviewmagazine.com