Critter Chat: Bunny by Mona Awad

Name: Critter Chat: Bunny by Mona Awad
Start: 2025-10-29T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Later Alligator

Schedule

Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Later Alligator | Wheeling, WV

At a recent meeting, we were talking about “culty” books and ended up browsing a list that included this one! This will be our second Mona Awad selection — some of us read All’s Well back in November 2022, with mixed reviews and spirited conversation.
Join us to talk about it! If you’re into it, a sequel is also on the way on September 23, and a Bunny movie may be in the works.
Description:
“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.”
"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