Awad, Mona
"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 are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become 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
a caustic art school dropout
in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult and starts to take part in their ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they magically conjure 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 of loneliness and belonging
creativity and agency
and friendship and desire
Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author whose work has been described as "honest
searing and necessary" (Elle)" --