Samantha’s cohort comprises a group of four young women known as the Bunnies, a quartet that resembles what the eponymous high-school girls in Heathers or the Plastics from Mean Girls might have turned into if they took a few women’s studies courses and were unleashed on an MFA program. As a narrator, Samantha is caustic and deeply funny while simultaneously voicing an unshakable emotional heaviness. Samantha was born in a tourist town reminiscent of Niagara Falls her relationship with her parents is melancholic and full of yearning. The author’s second novel follows Samantha, a sophomore MFA student in an experimental creative-writing program at a prestigious uni versity called Warren. In this exploration of how women’s repressed rage and desires can manifest, Awad weaponizes cuteness in a ferocious and dynamic way. Mona Awad’s Bunny is gripping, frenetically readable, and bewilderingly erotic.
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