Bunny: TikTok made me buy it! - Softcover

Awad, Mona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788545443 ISBN 13: 9781788545440

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2020

Synopsis

'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOOD.

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. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunnies, the boundary between fiction and reality begins to blur.

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 the author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.

'Brilliant, sharp, weird ... I loved it and couldn't put it down' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN.
'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition' LENA DUNHAM.
'Hilarious and subversive, magical and knife-sharp' LAURA VAN DEN BERG.
'Equal parts wit, fancy, and wickedness' SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM.
'Enchanting and stunningly bizarre' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

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Review:

'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!' Margaret Atwood.

'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' Laura van den Berg.

'It is not an exaggeration to say that I devoured Bunny teeth, fur, claws and all ... A truly delectable novel that is equal parts wit, fancy, and wickedness. Unafraid to challenge some sacrosanct notions about women artists, female friendship, and writing, her book is a compulsively readable testament to the sheer creative force of loneliness and longing' Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.

'One of the most pristine and delightful attacks on popular girls since Clueless. Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition' Lena Dunham.

'The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body. This brilliant, sharp, weird book skewers the heightened rhetoric of obsessive female friendship in a way I don't think I've ever seen before. I loved it and I couldn't put it down' Kristen Roupenian.

'Awad's outstanding novel follows the highly addictive, darkly comedic tale of sardonic Samantha Mackey, a poetry MFA student at a top-tier New England school ... An enchanting and stunningly bizarre novel' Publishers Weekly.

'A highly original, dark, gothic novel, at once exuberantly weird and extremely funny' The Bookseller.

'To call this a dark comedy undersells the richness of its message, and to say it's a satire misses its realism. Bunny is so sharp it will leave you bloody' --Vulture

'By the time the first head explodes a third of the way through, you wonder how Awad can possibly keep it up. But she's clearly had a blast ... And her sheer panache powers you through the hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery' --Daily Mail

'Throbbing with the kind of satire Heathers would f**k you gently with a chainsaw for, this is one-of-a-kind delicious' --Heat

Book Description:

A highly original, dark, gothic novel, at once exuberantly weird and extremely funny.

About this edition

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1788545443
• ISBN 13: 9781788545440
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384