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. 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.
This is The Secret History through the looking glass, carroll’s white rabbit split into four excessively co-dependent MFA students twitchy and touchy-feely and calling each other “bunny,” operating symbiotically(?) as a “we ” each maintaining a specifically regimented style of expression in appearance and craft, but otherwise inseparable. you see, it is also compared to The Vegetarian, which i have not read, but now that i’ve looked into that book more, if i HAD read it, i probably would have been less taken aback by what this book actually is. it is ALSO not, although this is frequently true of other books, that it is being misrepresented by overzealous marketing. which is not to say it’s bad AT ALL, it’s just not what i thought i was getting into. seeing this was set “at an elite new england university” with an exclusive clique at its center and seeing it compared to Heathers, i went into it expecting a Megan Abbott-y/ The Secret History-y type of deal full of those dark and toxic currents that define adolescent girlhood, where affection shifts into power struggle at the drop of a hat, but also featuring a bunch of soulless smarty-pants big on ritualistic gatherings and down for some light murder. Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST HORROR 2019! what will happen? The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.
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. 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 seem to move and speak as one.īut 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. Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University.
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