RL Book Club #97: "Bunny" by Mona Awad

Name: RL Book Club #97: "Bunny" by Mona Awad
Start: 2025-04-29T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Reed's Local

Schedule

Tue, 29 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Reed's Local | Chicago, IL

Join us for the Reed's Local Book Club April Meetup! We will be reading "Bunny" by Mona Awad and discussing it on April 29. Anyone who loves books, talking about books with cool people, and doing it in a dive bar setting are welcome to join!
Snacks will be provided. Oh boy, are there snacks!
Description from Storygraph.com:
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge
“We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn’t we?”
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.