To say that the Bunnies are codependent is an understatement. While Samantha holds nearly everyone in her program at a distance, it is a group of four close female friends with a penchant for calling each other “Bunny” for whom Samantha has the greatest disregard. Her only friend is an artist and fellow outsider named Ava.
The other students in Samantha’s cohort come from privilege, which makes Samantha uncomfortable and leads her to self-isolate. The novel’s central character, Samantha Mackey, is a young fiction writer, studying at a prestigious New England MFA program. A follow-up to her 2016 debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Awad’s newest novel explores the usual landscape of a young, isolated writer in a most unusual way.
Mona Awad’s Bunny (Penguin Random House) does just that. What is less common is to see it presented in a fresh and compelling manner. We can see this anywhere from the submission queues at literary journals to the shows we watch on television. With the adage “write what you know” being so popular, it is not surprising that writers like to write about other writers.
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