Nocturne Book Club: November 2025 Meeting

Saturday, November 22, 2025
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
At Nocturne

18 Front Street, Salem, MA

Join us for an evening of haunting beauty and literary mischief as the Nocturne Book Club gathers to read We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad, the long-awaited return to the strange and seductive world of her cult classic, Bunny.

In Bunny, we met Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely MFA student lured into the orbit of a clique of eerily sweet rich girls known as “the Bunnies.” What began as curiosity became obsession, and her descent into their surreal workshops blurred the line between art and monstrosity.

Now, in We Love You, Bunny, Samantha has published her first novel to critical acclaim — but when her former frenemies kidnap her during her New England book tour, it’s their turn to tell the story. Bound and silenced, Sam listens as each Bunny recounts their own dark genesis, their experiments in creation, and the twisted alchemy that first bound them together. What unfolds is part fairy tale, part slasher, a dazzling dark-academia fever dream about art, friendship, and the perilous magic of creation itself.

A standalone prequel-sequel hybrid, We Love You, Bunny invites us once again into Awad’s glittering nightmare of beauty, ambition, and madness. Frankenstein meets Heathers, with a dash of black lipstick and a whisper of witchcraft. 🩷👁️🐇

👩‍💻 About Mona Awad

Mona Awad is a modern master of literary enchantment. The internationally acclaimed author of Bunny, All’s Well, and Rouge, her work explores the wonder and horror of transformation, femininity, and desire. Known for her lush prose and dark humor, Awad’s fiction feels like a spell — equal parts tenderness and terror — earning her comparisons to Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, and Donna Tartt.

Light refreshments will be served. Copies of We Love You, Bunny are available at Nocturne.

💬 Join Us

Step into the Bunny-verse once more and lose yourself in the beauty, chaos, and strange sisterhood of Mona Awad’s imagination. We can’t wait to see you beneath the candlelight at Nocturne for an evening of conversation, laughter, and a touch of literary madness.

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