Bunny: TikTok made me buy it!

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Heathers meet The Craft 1996; Mean Girls meet witchcraft. Whatever you want to call it, this book is a dark, thrilling satire; it’s refreshing and new. Mona Awad, the author of “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl”, combines humour and fiction flawlessly – I caught myself laughing then retracting from the novel multiple times when I read it. You’re also probably wondering how, if Ava is a Darling, why would she disappear after Samantha takes her pills? Well, my theory is that since Ava was made without some sacred ritual involving animal sacrifice, her tangibility relies on Samantha’s imagination. With the pills soothing her mind, she disappears and reappears correspondently. Veitch, Mara (2021-08-02). "The Novelist Mona Awad Pushes Shakespeare off the Stage". Interview Magazine . Retrieved 2023-05-18. The final chapter ends with Samantha’s graduation and her letting go. She and Jonah, the Boy-Who-Deserves-Better, makes plans for the same night; and so the book ends on a good note: Samantha is finally trying to make friends out of real people, or is she? Besides feeling lonely, Samantha feels like she doesn’t belong. She constantly points out the fact that the program she’s in is for the elites and how she lives off her stipends; she is envious of the Bunnies – she can’t tell if she wants to be them, or be friends with them. She longs for a home, which is the main reason she created Ava, even if she didn’t notice at first. Ava is what she wanted, her mother-figure of some sort as her real mother died when she was younger; her haven.

A Degree in Useless: Lampshaded by Samantha. Before starting at Warren, she worked menial jobs as a receptionist and bookstore sales associate after she finished her English degree. There are those bizarre and experimental books that manage to be entertaining, transgressive, and on occasion even thought-provoking. And then, there are books like Bunny whose weirdness largely rests on overusing the word bunny (which appears approximately 350 times, one time too many).This is where it gets weird: Rob Valencia shows up, says some weird things, and invites her to dance. Then suddenly, Rob munches on her corsage, earning him a slap. A group of four privileged women who have it all – money, friends, and smarts; an unhappy, lonely scholar with an overactive imagination. Set in a prestigious New England MFA writing program with the coterie in the same group, what could go wrong? Where It Went Wrong Butt-Monkey: Kira among the Bunnies. She’s constantly exploited and treated like less by them, yet she stays their friends.

With the Bunnies, Awad has created some of the most memorable antagonists in recent fiction. The young women are scarily believable contradictions — they’re fans of both transgressive, experimental prose and Pinkberry frozen yogurt, literary riot grrrls with a cuddlecore aesthetic. They love-bomb Samantha one minute and tear her down the next, angering Ava, who hates their “little-girl cult.” There are reoccurring mentions of swans throughout the book. One of the earliest ones being when the Bunnies sent her the first Smut Salon invitation folded into an origami swan – this implies that the Bunnies were already aware from the beginning that Ava is a Hybrid. The most obvious mention of Ava being a swan was when Samantha recalls her first meeting with her whilst searching: Ava snaps some sense into our narrator, rekindling the flares of hatred Samantha harbours for that particular quartet of shrill women. Then anticlimactically, Ave tells her that she’s leaving town, and walks away, which leads Samantha to chase after her and fail. She cries, the Bunnies comfort and feeds her more pills, and the whole circle is now complete. Everything is alright after that; she starts to lead the workshop and all her anxiety disappears. 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 HotelA 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” She shivers at the view of the grand trees, as if they’re not trees at all but something truly vile, like all the rosy-blond light that seems to forever bathe the campus is about to punch her in the face like a terrible fist of rich. She has a gloved hand – though not as bad as the other Drafts with fewer functional appendages – which is a sure sign of being a Darling. After finding out about being fooled, the Bunnies take revenge by beheading Ava with an ax, signature style. 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. Together with the Bunnies, she creates "Hybrids", half-man, half-rabbit creatures based on their ideal men, with the goal of reclaiming the narratives of women's lives. 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