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  • Written by: Mona Awad
  • Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
  • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (149 ratings)

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Bunny

Written by: Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
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Publisher's Summary

Soon to be a major motion picture

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get in Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" (Margaret Atwood, via Twitter)

"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." (Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times)

"Awad is a stone-cold genius." (Ann Bauer, The Washington Post)

The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.

"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"

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.

Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIMEVogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

©2019 Mona Awad (P)2019 Listening Library

What the critics say

"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

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Confused

It was difficult, given that this is an audio book, to tell whether this was an affected, over dramatic book read by a decent narrator, or if it was an affected, over dramatic narrator reading a decent book.

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Weird Twinkie psychological thriller... but in a good way

If you can stomach the saccharine dialogue, this is a deeply fascinating story. I found it to be rich with themes and the descriptive writing is visceral and original. I was totally sucked in. The author is clearly a fucking brilliant writer.

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Disorienting and frightening 🩷

I loved that I didn’t know really, what was real, even at the end. great narration too.

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Slow but not terrible

This book was great from the start and beautifully written, but I lost momentum about halfway through. It lands on the line of obviously sci-if but not fantastical, and I would’ve liked it to commit a bit to one or the other. Truthfully I don’t think it needed to be as long as it was, but I am glad I listened to it and will definitely explore other work by Awad!

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Don’t even know what I read

Maybe coz it was an audio book but it was weird. Maybe I didn’t pay attention. I didn’t feel like there was much of a twist at all. Kind of boring and pointless

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Wonderfully Weird

A really unique story! I'm very glad I chose to listen rather than read this one.
At the beginning of the novel, everyone being referred to as "bunny" was really disorienting and I thought "maybe this story doesn't translate well to audio format." But towards the end as things start to pick up, that disorientation perfectly lends itself to the narrative.

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Hmm unnecessary

Maybe it was the audio book of it all. Seemed so angsty then got weird in a weird way… but the narration kind of ruined it and it just felt really forced emo teen girl

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unexpected storyline

I saw this book featured in a reel called "weird books for weird girls" and it delivered. the content was provocative and odd. the narrator was terrific and the storyline was utterly unpredictable and often uncomfortable, I expect, exactly as the author intended for it to be. not my usual style (leans more into fantasy than I tend to like) but feels like an echoing chamber of the real world viewed through fluctuating and volatile mental health struggles. often unclear whether the author is speaking in metaphor, or whether the content is intended to be accepted as reality. very effective literary devices.

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It wanted so badly to be self aware…

This book asks the question: what if you put 10 pretentious artists in a room and watched them all judge each other?

The answer is a lot of pretentious bs. The author commented on said bs over and over and over again, but the book still manages to fall into the same traps that it’s critiquing. I think the author was going for self awareness, and instead it was just repetitive and obnoxious.

As for the ending, I will refer back to Caroline commenting on Victoria’s performance. I thought I wasn’t smart enough to get it, but that’s not it. It’s intentionally vague and confusing trying to pass as deep.

Idk. Maybe that was the point? Regardless, I need an Advil and a nap.

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Even better the second time!

This was my second time reading Bunny. When I first picked up the book last year, I was immediately drawn in by the first chapter. I fell in love with Awad’s writing style, perfectly timed purple prose and author’s voice. Reading it a second time, I discovered more about Samantha’s world, the people and darlings she interacts with and the messages this story delivers. Bunny focuses on the It-Girl aesthetic, social cliques, classism and the ignorance of the wealthy. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in reading something strange and twisted, or to anyone who wishes to read a darker version of Alice in Wonderland.

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