The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively
strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of
rich girls who seem to move and speak as one
"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make
something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small,
highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A
scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to
that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction
writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each
other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight
they become one.
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, a caustic art school
dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the
sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult and starts to take part
in their ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they magically conjure
their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her
friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision.
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 an author whose work has been
described as "honest, searing and necessary" (Elle).
