We Love You, Bunny
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Publisher Description
The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse – a world that Margaret Atwood declared ‘soooo genius’.
In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences.
When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers — and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete standalone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to a dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever dream, Mona Awad.
‘Fresh yet nostalgic, darkly funny and a complete page-turner’ - Daily Mirror
A goofy, overblown flower of a book with lots of thorns that pleasurably scratch’ – Guardian
‘Unhinged in the best way’ – i paper
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This gleefully macabre companion to Awad's hit novel Bunny returns readers to the surreal world of the Warren University MFA program and covers events before and after the original. Told largely from the perspectives of the Bunnies—a group of four unsettlingly synchronized female fiction writers who were students at Warren—this installment zeroes in on the group's origin story. The Bunnies take turns recounting how they "broke reality and basically reinvented the laws of the natural world," as they hold former classmate Samantha Mackey—now a successful author—captive in the attic that once served as their creative sanctum. Midway through, their voices give way to that of Aerius, the chiseled, moody young man the Bunnies conjured from a rabbit. Known as their "first draft," Aerius looks like "Hollywood's latest Leading Man" and embodies the Bunnies' collective fantasies. Unlike their subsequent boy-bunny hybrids (the Darlings of the first book), Aerius has working genitalia and human hands. "We must Possess you," the Bunnies tell their naïve creation. Awad's prose remains as biting as ever, skillfully oscillating between the lyrical and the absurd. Readers need not be familiar with Bunny to appreciate this outing, though fans will relish the deepened mythology and twisted callbacks. This bold satire breaks exciting new ground in the Bunny universe.
