Bunny
by Mona Awad
A graduate student in an MFA program is on the outside of a clique of wealthy girls who call each other Bunny and seem to share a consciousness. When she finally gets invited into the group, things stop making conventional sense almost immediately.
“We’re going to make something beautiful and we’re going to make it together, Bunny.”
What It Actually Felt Like
The only way I know how to describe Bunny is a fever dream paired with a schizophrenic acid trip in a girls’ cult, which is a sentence I didn’t expect to write today but here we are. You have to let go of wanting this book to make conventional sense and just ride it.
The satire of MFA culture is sharp and specific and genuinely funny if you know that world at all. The horror elements are unsettling in a dreamlike way. The plot is difficult to follow if you need linearity. All of this is intentional and whether it works for you depends entirely on whether you can surrender to the weirdness.
The Honest Part
The book chooses atmosphere over clarity and not everyone is here for that. If you need to understand what’s happening this book will frustrate you. If you can float in it, there’s something real there.
Who This Is For
Literary horror fans who like their books weird and layered. This one was a bit of a fever dream through the eyes of a college sorority if that sounds interested to you, you’re in the right place.
⭐⭐⭐ Confusing in a way that somehow works. Best read in one sitting.
Tags horror, literary fiction, dark academia, surreal, mood: dream-like and disorienting
