We Love You, Bunny - by Mona Awad (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse--a world that Margaret Atwood declared "soooo genius."

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves "Bunny." An invitation to the Bunnies' Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences.

When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they've been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it's her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies' side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers--and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.

Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.

Review Quotes

"Mona Awad has returned and her latest will get under your skin just the way her fans have come to expect." --PEOPLE

Praise for Bunny by Mona Awad

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" --Margaret Atwood, via X (formerly Twitter)

"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." --Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times

"A dark, dazzling fairy tale . . . A touching story of true-versus-faux friendship that many women will relate to is at the heart of this novel, but fans of the occult will find plenty to love about the Bunnies' sci-fi-adjacent ritual experimentation. As if grad school needed to get any scarier." --Vogue, "The Best Novels of 2019"

"Awad is a stone-cold genius." --Ann Bauer, The Washington Post

"Wacky and delicious." --Lauren Groff, via X (fromerly Twitter)

"[One of] the most cerebral and compulsively readable books of the season . . . This compelling novel about a mysterious grad school clique draws a bit of inspiration from Mean Girls or Heathers...before long, the novel takes a turn into the surreal, applying the logic of a horror movie to its incisive exploration of cruelty between young women." --Vanity Fair

"Every time I open it up, I stumble upon a crackling sentence." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Outstanding . . . highly addictive, darkly comedic . . . Awad will have readers racing to find out how it all ends--and they won't be disappointed once the story reaches its wild finale. This is an enchanting and stunningly bizarre novel." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

"A work of toothsome and fanged intelligence....wickedly hilarious." --The New Yorker

"A viciously funny bloodbath . . . Awad gleefully pumps up the novel's nightmarish quality until the boundary between perception and reality has all but dissolved completely. It's clear that Awad is having fun here--the proof is in the gore--and her delight is contagious . . . Wickedly sharp . . . A near-perfect realization of a singular vision." --Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

"Mona Awad's prose is dangerous. She crafts beautiful meals laced with poison." --The Paris Review

About the Author

Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All's Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award, and she was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Bunny was a finalist for a New England Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Rouge is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. Margaret Atwood named Awad her literary heir in The New York Times's T Magazine. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.