Bunny

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Awad, Mona	4-week checkout	On Hold Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Awad, Mona	4-week checkout	On Hold Shelf

"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)" -- Provided by publisher.

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Bizarre but wonderful submitted by jaromatorio on September 27, 2019, 12:04pm If you’re looking for a fever dream mashup of Mean Girls and Frankenstein, this is the book for you! Mona Awad’s writing is wonderful, but it was really the confusion born out of the ‘what’s real and what’s imaginary’ that made this book impossible to put down.

Overhyped, but still an enjoyable read submitted by aklisz on June 12, 2022, 10:47pm This book is fun and fairly inventive, but, for me, failed to live up to the excitement I've seen online. None of the "reveals" throughout the story had me hugely surprised in a way that felt deserving of so much praise.

Strange but Immersive submitted by cbitsko on June 16, 2022, 6:11pm One of my favorite books. If you've been in grad school, had to interact with a clique of mean girls, or felt out of place in a collegiate setting, I think you'll find it enjoyable to read. The only thing I would see as a drawback is the fogginess of what's real. If you're not into ambiguity like this, it might not be as good of a read for you. However, I thought it was well written and handled such ambiguity nicely- it messed with me in the best ways possible.