Bunny

First published 2019

Reception

Rave reviews. 8 of 12 critics gave a rave.

Rave 8 · Positive 4 · Mixed 0 · Pan 0

  • “Awad does so many things right in Bunny”

    Los Angeles Times · Michael Schaub · Rave

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  • “The Bunnies go through a lot of Drafts. There is a lot of blood.”

    Ploughshares · Carl Lavigne · Rave

  • “a work of toothsome and fanged intelligence … Awad has winkingly deployed the great ruse of the supernatural”

    The New Yorker · Hermione Hoby · Rave

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  1. 2026
    Los Angeles Times

    Reviewed by Sophia Kercher, 17 September

  • Los Angeles Times · 17 September 2026

    With ax tattoos and rabbit ears, Mona Awad’s ‘Bunny’ fans are bringing her viral fiction to real life. Next up, a film adaptation

    As her paperback sequel hits shelves, the "Bunny" author reflects on the fan art, tattoos and real-life connections that have emerged from the book.

    By Sophia Kercher

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About the book

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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 seem to move and speak as 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, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus “Workshop” where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Description from Open Library

About the author

Mona Awad, born 1978, Canada.

Catalogue record

Head of Zeus · 272 pages

Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pages
272
ISBN
978-1-78854-543-3 +5
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Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pages
272
ISBNs
  • 978-1-78854-543-3
  • 978-1-78854-545-7
  • 978-0-525-55975-7
  • 978-0-525-55973-3
  • 978-1-0359-2086-0
  • 978-0-7352-3588-5
Author
Awad, Mona, 1978–
Statement
Bunny / Mona Awad.
Records
Open Library

Subjects

  • American literature
  • Graduate students