Bunny: TikTok made me buy it!

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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 I watch him busy himself at his own cubby, which is full to exploding with letters and books. Humming a little. Taking his time.

this is an observation i made based on title alone, only to discover that the woman who wrote cat person made the same one presumably after reading the whole book) Aggressive Submissive: Victoria, a former punk and rebel who became a Bunny during her first year at Warren. Awad desires for her stories to provide readers with "a sense of connection" so that "people [may] feel less alone." [10] Everything's Better with Sparkles: The Bunnies cover Samantha in sparkles before they drug her at her first Smut Salon.

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so yeah, it’s VERY reminiscent of Heathers, with its interplay of the frivolous and the dark and the comedic, as well as individual and group dynamics, Better Living Through Evil: Max helps Samantha speak her mind and live a better life by abandoning the Bunnies. Too bad he is a representation of all of her darkest thoughts bottled up to let out her anger at the world. 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”

Kelly, Hillary (2021-08-05). "Review: Wellness as metaphor: Mona Awad's new novel of pain and witchery". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2023-05-18. A] riveting and often funny tale about the dark side of female seduction.”— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ms. Imagination: Samantha. She's been that way her whole life, and this makes her even better than the Bunnies at creating humans from animals - so much so she does it unintentionally and seemingly unaware of it.

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In the summary, I mentioned our protagonist was in a writing function with Ava as company. During this, Ava makes fun of the Bunnies by laughing at them, which catches their attention. This is where the chain of events begin. Now it's time to talk about the moment where this turned from awesome to disappointing. You know how the summary promotes the idea that these are women bringing to life their "dark fantasies"? Yeah, sounds interesting, doesn't it? You wanna know what their "dark fantasies" are? samantha, our narrator and entry into this world, is the fifth person in the workshop, on the awkward periphery of these cooing girls who always seem to be monkey-grooming one another and giggling and sparkling all over the place. unlike the bunnies, who are rich and well-assimilated in the jargony twaddle of MFA programs the world over ( ”I appreciate the uncertainty the piece gestures toward…I just think she could go further into the dream space. It’s so interesting how she performs and reenacts trauma.”), samantha is planted firmly in outsider territory; a scholarship student whose darker themes are called ‘angry,’ ‘mean,’ and ‘distant’ by the bunnies, from whom she seems content to maintain her distance; aloof and sarcastically eviscerating them from afar alongside her art school dropout bestie ava; she of the fishnet gloves and veil, the asymmetrical haircut and tattered underwear-as-outerwear look.

The way Mona Awad writes is brilliant – with her wit, humour, and her unique literary prowess – she has a way of keeping the readers entertained with her evocative prose.

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Aspiritual 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 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 main thing that is particularly mind-blowing to me about the brilliancy of the author is how she connects the way the story plays out with the setting. Throughout the book, Mona Awad pokes fun at the disparity of Ivy League schools and the town they’re situated in; criticising the movement of academic superiority amongst others; making snide remarks on vague terms – Body, Process, and Work – academic teachers often use. She infuses her critique into her protagonist’s narrative; the unravelling of Samantha’s story is just the process of writing after all.

Discuss Samantha and Ava’s relationship dynamic. Is it a mature, refreshing alternative to the Bunnies’ treacly affection and codependence, or can their bond also be read as unhealthy in its own way? How do Samantha and Ava perform for each other? What is each seeking from the other as their relationship evolves? What questions were provoked or resolved by the ending?

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I watch her survey them through her fishnet veil, her David Bowie eyes filled with horror and boredom, her mouth an unimpressed red line.