If Olivia’s going to escape Chapel Hill and someday reconcile with her parents, she’ll need to dodge residents enslaved by the storm’s otherworldly powers and find Sunflower.īut as the night strains friendships and reality itself, Olivia suspects the storm, and its monster, may have its eyes on Sunflower and everything she loves. Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm which crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow.
At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. Mona Awad’s Bunny meets Stranger Things in this mind-bending and terrifying examination of female friendship and the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love, from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth. One of Paste Magazine’s Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2023 in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver, she has published work in Time, VICE, Electric Literature, McSweeney's, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.Pre-order at Barnes & Noble,, Amazon, Penguin Random House The recipient of an MFA in Fiction from Brown University and a Ph.D. Mona Awad is the author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize that won the Colorado Book Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and an Honorable Mention from the Arab American Book Awards. A truly delectable novel that is equal parts wit, fancy, and wickedness." – Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Miss Hempel Chronicles "I devoured Bunny-teeth, fur, claws and all. "Hilarious and subversive, magical and knife-sharp: Bunny is a stunner." – Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel I loved it.” - Kristen Roupenian, author of "Cat Person" and You Know You Want This The Secret History meets Jennifer’s Body. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult and starts to take part in their ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they magically conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. 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 are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one.īut 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, a caustic art school dropout, in the process. Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University.
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