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I stand here, I sway here, full of tepid sparkling and animal livers and whatever hard alcohol Ava keeps pouring from her Drink Me ask into my plastic cup. “What’s in this again?” I ask.

A group of four privileged women who have it all – money, friends, and smarts; an unhappy, lonely scholar with an overactive imagination. Set in a prestigious New England MFA writing program with the coterie in the same group, what could go wrong? Where It Went Wrong Roberts, Joe (18 March 2023). "Bunny: Everything We Know So Far About Bad Robot's Movie Adaptation". Slash Film . Retrieved 5 April 2023. samantha, our narrator and entry into this world, is the fifth person in the workshop, on the awkward periphery of these cooing girls who always seem to be monkey-grooming one another and giggling and sparkling all over the place. unlike the bunnies, who are rich and well-assimilated in the jargony twaddle of MFA programs the world over ( ”I appreciate the uncertainty the piece gestures toward…I just think she could go further into the dream space. It’s so interesting how she performs and reenacts trauma.”), samantha is planted firmly in outsider territory; a scholarship student whose darker themes are called ‘angry,’ ‘mean,’ and ‘distant’ by the bunnies, from whom she seems content to maintain her distance; aloof and sarcastically eviscerating them from afar alongside her art school dropout bestie ava; she of the fishnet gloves and veil, the asymmetrical haircut and tattered underwear-as-outerwear look. Bunny by Mona Awad is a fictional novel set at Warren University in the East Coast town of Warren. The narrator tells the story from a third-person perspective in an assertive mood. The novel's central character is Samantha, and the antagonists are the Bunnies. The primary conflict is between Ava and the Bunnies, who drug Samantha into their evil rituals, which involve converting rabbits into men called hybrids. The novel's main themes include individuality and identity, while the primary symbol in the entire poem is the swan. A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from Mona Awad, one of our most fearless and inventive chroniclers of the female experience.After being invited to another party, Samantha is surprised with the news that her high school crush, who is also invited is attending. After being dressed by Cupcake and Creepy Doll, she is prepped like a virgin bride. I stare at the loopy, shimmering font, the little hearts one of them (had to be Cupcake, or possibly Creepy Doll?) has drawn around my name. I feel myself start to sweat though it’s freezing in this hallway. Mistake. Has to be. No way in hell they would ever invite me to Smut Salon. That was their own private Bunny thing, like Touching Tuesdays or binge‐watching The Bachelorette or making little woodland creatures out of marzipan.

Graduation for Everyone: Even if the Bunnies become terrible students as a result of Max’s meddling, they still graduate with Samantha. A] dizzying tale of misandry, class anxiety, and psychological torment . . . Fans of sinister girl gangs, take heart!”— Harper’s Bazaar Taking advantage of Samantha’s blind spot, they brainwash her into joining the cult; simultaneously making her hate and love them more. They feed her pills that enable them to control her and makes her reliant on them, so though she can think of hating them, Samantha also yearns for them. Those same pills may also be pills that get rid of hallucinations and delusions.Everytown, America: Warren is an amalgamation of several real-life New England universities, and based on Rhode Island. What is the deal with the Bunnies? Why can they turn animals into humans? Why is Max holding a swan? If you didn’t read the book and just read my summary that covers more or less the content of the book, you’ll probably be confused. If you read the book, you may be less confused but still have some questions lingering. To save time, I didn’t write my summary – if you can call it that, it’s not very short – with explicit detail; I wrote it just to form an outline. The book itself left many clues or easter eggs, so forgive me if this analysis doesn’t make much sense when referring to the summary above. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

Better Living Through Evil: Max helps Samantha speak her mind and live a better life by abandoning the Bunnies. Too bad he is a representation of all of her darkest thoughts bottled up to let out her anger at the world. This whole time, Max and Ava were dating; which answers how Max knew the way to Ava’s house. When Samantha finds out, she isn’t pleased. She doesn’t like Max, even though she created him; she deems him suspicious and hates him for saying things that she wanted to say – it’s as if he can read her mind.

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it’s really fun and sharp and shivery, with a macabre fairy-tale overlay that gives it a unique spin on the coming-of-age tale. "coming-of-age" might seem misplaced, considering these are MFA students, but they read much younger than their actual age; not just the self-consciously girly-girl bunnies, but also in the themes samantha brings to the narrative; her awkwardness and loneliness and leftover-adolescent self-consciousness about fitting in; finding her place — for all of her ostensible disgust at the bunnies, their camaraderie is not without appeal for someone defined by loneliness and survival-mode embracing of their own otherness.