We have, on the surface, a group of grown women acting like the grad student versions of Mean Girls or the Heathers, with an added dose of fabulism. I float on their buoyant waves.”īunny is an incredibly unique and polarizing book. The toothy blade of saw dissolves into silvery, light-kissed waters. The smiling watermelons in my fist wink at me. ‘Things aren’t always what they seem, are they?’ I look at her cat ears.
I think of the silver, toothy blade that cuts things. ‘His head exploded.’ When I say this, I realize how funny it is. She accepts with the hope that she’ll be treated less like a fifth wheel in the program, but soon finds herself deeply involved in the Bunnies’ crazy “writing” project, and reality melts away. Samantha has been making fun of them for a full year with a friend who’s outside of it all, but things change when the Bunnies extend an invitation to Samantha.
Their second and final year is now underway, but there are two problems- Samantha is hit with a dose of writer’s block, and the rest of the women in her group seem to have formed some sort of bizarre cult. She is one of five students in her cohort, a group of all women for the first time ever. In the novel, Samantha is taking part in an elite writing program at Warren, a (fictional) New England university. I’ll have a review of Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby coming soon, and in the meantime I’m sharing some thoughts on Mona Awad’s Bunny, a fabulist novel about a grad level writing program, which I enjoyed back in May. I want this to be a long-term and sustainable project, which means catching up on the posts I’ve been holding back and mixing the Black-authored books I’m reading in with the rest of my content. One of the things I’m doing to try to show my support and (hopefully) affect a change is to increase the number of Black authors whose work I’m buying, reading, and promoting through my book accounts. Black lives matter! If you haven’t yet, check out this post where I’ve rounded up and explained a number of ways to help the movement, or just go straight here to do your part.
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