To say that the Bunnies are codependent is an understatement. While Samantha holds nearly everyone in her program at a distance, it is a group of four close female friends with a penchant for calling each other “Bunny” for whom Samantha has the greatest disregard. Her only friend is an artist and fellow outsider named Ava. The other students in Samantha’s cohort come from privilege, which makes Samantha uncomfortable and leads her to self-isolate. The novel’s central character, Samantha Mackey, is a young fiction writer, studying at a prestigious New England MFA program. A follow-up to her 2016 debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Awad’s newest novel explores the usual landscape of a young, isolated writer in a most unusual way. Mona Awad’s Bunny (Penguin Random House) does just that. What is less common is to see it presented in a fresh and compelling manner. We can see this anywhere from the submission queues at literary journals to the shows we watch on television. Read the full New York Times Style Magazine article.With the adage “write what you know” being so popular, it is not surprising that writers like to write about other writers. “I’m beyond honored to have been chosen by Margaret Atwood, a writer I’ve long admired and whose incredible work has been so important to my sense of play and possibility on the page,” says Awad. program at New England’s Warren University, becomes drawn into her cliquey fiction writing cohort who call each other “bunny.”Īwad, who met Atwood in person for the first time at the New York Times photoshoot in November 2022, says Atwood’s books have inspired her as a writer ever since she began reading her work in high school.
The novel accounts the life of a student, who, while attending a highly selective M.F.A.
It was named a best book by TIME, Vogue and other publications, and was recently optioned for film by JJ Abram’s production company, Bad Robot. Since it was published in 2019, “Bunny” has garnered international acclaim. You think, ‘She’s not going to go there … yes, she is.’” It’s very funny, kind of horrifying and quite far outside the lines. “I’ve been an admirer of Mona’s novel ‘Bunny’ for some time,” Atwood noted in the article “It’s a form of Gothic satire, and she sets it at a writing school.
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