They call themselves “the bunnies” and they address each other as “bunny”. This book mainly focuses on a grad school student, Sam, who is finishing her final year of school, when she gets invited to join a friend group of four fellow classmates.
I still do not totally understand what happened in this book, but that is part of the fun. Just a warning, if you ever plan to read this book, it is pretty weird. I believe it was around spring break when I started it. Awad’s writing is somehow both gorgeous and gritty as she explores creativity, art and the universal desire to belong.Welcome back for what I believe is the final blog. Bunny is an astonishingly self-assured next step, a surreal journey into the depths of a nightmare. Mona Awad made her mark with her acclaimed debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, a striking, at times heartbreaking examination of how body image affects modern life. As Samantha gets drawn into their circle, she learns that sometimes sweet is just a cover for something much more sinister. What could these cardigan-clad ladies-whose idea of a helpful fiction critique is clasping hands while proclaiming, Can I just say I loved living in your lines and that’s where I want to live forever now?-possibly know about smut? When Samantha arrives at a Bunny’s apartment for the event, she finds herself in the middle of a fever dream of an evening, with drinks and visits from her past and more drinks.
But when they invite tall, awkward Samantha to a “smut salon,” she is curious despite herself. They are the worst kind of friend group: cliquish, self-obsessed, prim, moneyed, privileged. She looks so much like a cupcake that when I first met her at orientation, I had a very real desire to eat her.” Pretty in a way that reminds you of frosting flourishes.
Gives off the scent of baked lemony sugar. Samantha has her own names for the Bunnies: She calls one “Cupcake” because “she looks like a cupcake. “Bunny” is the cloyingly sweet pet name shared by four young women in Samantha’s MFA program.
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