Mona Awad with Laura Zigman: We Love You, Bunny

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.”
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, TIME, among others, and has been translated into 18 languages. She divides her time between Boston and La Jolla.

Laura Zigman is the author of Small World (a New York Times Group Text pick and Editor's Choice), Separation Anxiety, Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie "Someone Like You," starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird, Her, and Piece of Work. She has collaborated on several works of non-fiction -- including Eddie Izzard's New York Times bestseller, Believe Me -- and has been a contributor to the New York Times and other publications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her seventh novel, The Author Weekend, was published in May 2026.

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