Mona Awad is the author of Bunny, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It is currently optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. Awad’s debut, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her most recent novel, All’s Well, was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror.
"Every time I open it up, I stumble upon a crackling sentence."
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"Awad has proved herself one of the most innovative and original
authors out there, and Bunny is a wild, audacious and ultimately
unforgettable novel." —Los Angeles Times
"A work of toothsome and fanged intelligence....wickedly
hilarious." —The New Yorker
"Deliciously evil . . . Awad is a stone-cold genius." —The
Washington Post
"Very funny and very sharp . . . An extremely readable
page-turner." —NPR's "Weekend Edition"
"A 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"
"[One of] the most cerebral and compulsively readable books of the
season . . . This compelling novel about a mysterious grad school
clique draws a bit of inspiration from Mean Girls or
Heathers...before long, the novel takes a turn into the surreal,
applying the logic of a horror movie to its incisive exploration of
cruelty between young women." —Vanity Fair
"A spiritual cousin to Stephen King’s Carrie . . . Bunny
is a kind of pastel-toned goth lit, an examination of what happens
when 'soft' femininity meets the tougher kind—but one that also
recognizes how blurry the distinction can be." —TIME
"Wacky and delicious." —Lauren Groff, via Twitter
"With visuals so vivid, and a plot so weird and gripping that it’s
already been snapped up to be made into a TV series, Bunny is a
summer book, an escapist comedy, a beach read that you’ll want to
pass around. But that’s only partly because it’s rollickingly,
laugh-out-loud funny. What makes it memorable, and powerful, is the
coupling of its go-for-broke sendup with an immense compassion . .
. For all its dagger-sharpness, Bunny has a tenderly accommodating
heart." —The Boston Globe
"It’s creepy and it’s kooky, mysterious and spooky, and you will
not be able to put it down." —The Washington Post
"A surreal, darkly funny take on art, power, and female
friendships." —Entertainment Weekly
"Exquisitely precise [and] funny as hell.'" —The Boston
Globe
"Like one of those razors marketed to women: you know, pink but
still GD dangerous." —Elle
"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
"The weirdest novel you'll read this year . . . in the best way
possible…With hints of Heathers and Mean Girls, I read
Bunny in one night and was genuinely bummed when it was over."
—Mehera Bonner, Cosmopolitan
"[A] dizzying tale of misandry, class anxiety, and psychological
torment . . . Fans of sinister girl gangs, take heart!" —Harper’s
Bazaar
"A dark, twisted novel that sharply interrogates women's
relationships to one another and to art, academia, and class—it's
the kind of book that leaves a taste in your mouth, the taste of
blood. Who knew that would taste so good?" —Nylon
"Mona Awad’s prose is dangerous. She crafts beautiful meals laced
with poison." —The Paris Review
"Mona Awad lets femininity bare its fangs." —The Toronto Star
"With notes of Scream Queens and Heathers, Bunny takes readers into
a twisted, terrifying cabal." —Newsweek
"[Bunny] quickly ascends to a Heathers level of camp without losing
its grip on emotional reality . . . the struggle, shame, and
frustration of making art rings true . . . enjoyable, insightful
[and] compulsively readable." —Ploughshares
"Strange, gothic and viciously entertaining." —The Irish Times
"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
"Tall, dark and culty." —TheSkimm
"If you’ve ever been the odd one out, read Bunny." —Refinery29
"The Vegetarian meets Carrie meets Mean Girls in this deliciously
dark tale about toxic female friendships, academia and class."
—BookRiot, "7 of the Buzziest Beach Reads of the Year"
"[A] riotous, pitch-black novel . . . [Awad's] sheer panache powers
you through the hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery." —The Daily
Mail
"Gripping [and] unique." —InStyle
"The Secret History meets Heathers with a dash of Mean Girls.
You’re gonna love it." —HelloGiggles
"[A] clever, contemplative, truly absurd campus novel that manages
to strike to the truth of things with a hot blade of magic.”
—LitHub
"Awad’s prose is compulsively readable, and Samantha’s voice sticks
in one’s head....With this book, no axe or spell is needed:
whatever ritual Awad did, Bunny came out just
right." —Ploughshares
"[Awad] has a wicked sense of humor . . . The energy in her writing
is truly infectious, and it’s a lot of fun to go with her down the
rabbit hole." —Washington Independent Review of Books
"Bunny is the lovechild of Otessa Moshfegh’s Eileen and Donna
Tartt’s The Secret History after a chance meeting at a midnight
showing of Heathers . . . Dark but hilarious, quirky yet
insightful, and at times just flat out weird, Bunny is the perfect
anti-beach read for those of us who spend summer dreading the
outside, opting to stay in burning scented candles with our
curtains drawn and our white noise machine set to 'thunder storm.'"
—Napa Valley Register
"[A] riveting and often funny tale about the dark side of female
seduction." —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Gripping [and] frenetically readable . . . In this exploration of
how women’s repressed rage and desires can manifest, Awad
weaponizes cuteness in a ferocious and dynamic way . . . [She]
artfully demonstrates what it’s like to attempt to be creative
while drowning in the alienating and garish malaise that is being
alive in our current cultural moment." —Quill & Quire
"Social acceptance, female friendship, the coming-of-age process .
. . it's all ripe for the discussion here." —Bustle
"Astonishingly self-assured . . . Awad’s writing is somehow both
gorgeous and gritty as she explores creativity, art and the
universal desire to belong." —BookPage
"Full of Fight Club-level plot twists and sharp, biting humor; the
novel is the perfect summer-to-fall transition read. Pro-tip:
Convince a friend to do a buddy read because you’ll want someone to
discuss it with after." —Girls Night In (Book Club Pick)
"A viciously funny bloodbath . . . Awad gleefully pumps up the
novel's nightmarish quality until the boundary between perception
and reality has all but dissolved completely. It's clear that Awad
is having fun here—the proof is in the gore—and her delight is
contagious . . . Wickedly sharp . . . A near-perfect
realization of a singular vision." —Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
"Outstanding . . . highly addictive, darkly comedic . . . Awad will
have readers racing to find out how it all ends—and they won’t be
disappointed once the story reaches its wild finale. This is an
enchanting and stunningly bizarre novel." —Publishers Weekly,
STARRED REVIEW
"Sharp and utterly bonkers; think Heathers gone to grad school."
—Booklist
"[A] dark story that defies categorization." —Library Journal
"Mona Awad’s precision is only matched by her wit as she mounts one
of the most pristine, delightful attacks on popular girls since
Clueless. Bunny made me cackle and nod in terrified recognition.
You will be glued to your cashmere blanket." —Lena Dunham, author
of Not That Kind of Girl
"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, author of "Cat
Person" and You Know You Want This
"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
Hotel
"It is not an exaggeration to say that I devoured Bunny—teeth, fur,
claws and all. Mona Awad has written 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,
author of Miss Hempel Chronicles
"If you’ve ever entertained dark fantasies about what really goes
on at an exclusive MFA program, Bunny will fulfill your wildest
dreams . . . The novel twists from familiar campus realism to a
dark fairytale, all the while traversing the emotional highs and
lows of the writing process." —Electric Literature
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