6/27/2023 0 Comments Bunny a novel by mona awadSamantha and her roommate, Ava, despise their cutesy language and over-affectionate hugging, praying that “ their ardent squeezing might cause the flesh to ooze from their sleeves, neckholes, and A-line hems of their cupcake dresses like so much inane frosting.”īut Samantha feels alone as an outcast, and is intrigued by the idea of being invited to join their exclusive group-writing workshop, ‘The Smut Salon’. The four women all have the same nickname for each other – “Bunny” – which is a good representation of their bound state and codependency. The start of this story starts out pretty typically – Samantha is a young fiction writer who feels completely alienated from her female cohort, as most of them come from privileged backgrounds and interact in ways that are totally alien to her. But while it’s something different, I feel like the plot is misshapen, and while it had the monsters, it was missing the teeth to really grab me and pull me in. This is Mean Girls if Tina Fey had been on acid while she wrote it, mixed with a Stepford-Wife-colored version of The Craft. In this novel, Awad tries to find a new way of exploring this kind of female experience, pulling it from reality and turning it into something truly unique and fantastical.
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