Mona Awad "We Love You, Bunny" (w/Clare Beams)
About this Event
White Whale is thrilled to welcome Mona Awad, bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, to Pittsburgh! We're celebrating the paperback release of her latest,We Love You, Bunny, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, an LA Times bestseller, a USA Today bestseller and a national bestseller. This offsite event will be held at the First Unitarian Church in Shadyside, and Mona will be joined in conversation by local writer and dear friend of White Whale, Clare Beams.
***Tickets are required to attend this event. Each ticket includes a SIGNED PAPERBACK of We Love You, Bunny—plus some festive swag! We will have additional copies for purchase, along witih copies of Mona Awad's other novels, on hand for purchase. Following the talk, there will be a signing line for personalization.***
Can’t make it? We'll have signed books after the event, and you can snag a copy Just make a note at checkout that you'd like to wait for a signed copy.
ABOUT THE BOOK
We Love You, Bunny is the highly anticipated follow-up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written and delirious literary horror novel set in the Bunny-verse—a world that Margaret Atwood declared “soooo genius.” Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women’s Wear Daily, and more.
In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls in her New England MFA program who call themselves “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.
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 in this “dark, twisted satire of academia” (The New York Times).
We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and a darkly comic and totally complete stand-alone novel that “feels like Han Kang’s The Vegetarian meets the 80s film Heathers” (People).
MONA AWAD is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a four-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, a two-time finalist for the Giller Prize, and the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award. Bunny is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Margaret Atwood named Awad her “literary heir” in The New York Times’s T Magazine. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s and TIME, among others, and has been translated into 18 languages. She divides her time between Boston and La Jolla.
CLARE BEAMS is the author of the novels The Garden and The Illness Lesson (Doubleday) both New York Times Editors’ Choices, and the story collection We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books) which won the Bard Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, Conjunctions, Ecotone, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at Randolph College.
Agenda
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Doors open
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Event begins
🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:30 AM
Signing
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 27.45
