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A review by jiujensu
Bunny by Mona Awad
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
5.0
What did I just read?? Not disturbing like Watership Down, but disturbing in its own way. I'll be processing this one for awhile. It's a dark comedy set in academia. Satirical.
On the surface it's sort of a Mean Girls (but at grad school) critique of cliques or bad female friendships with maybe a horror/cult dimension. The - do you hate them or do you want to be them - question. The popular girls are called the bunnies and they're in a grad school narrative arts program at an Ivy League level school called. . . Warren. Yep. So there's plenty of criticism for the Ivy League, writing programs, grad school, and the pretentious writing of students.
There are some twists and turns I don't think I want to spoil, but you really start questioning everything you think you know. You might say it feels like you're falling down a rabbithole. Mona Awad builds and then ever so slightly takes away so that you're left disoriented and wanting more. I'm still not sure about some things. I need to read it again. But maybe not right away.
On the surface it's sort of a Mean Girls (but at grad school) critique of cliques or bad female friendships with maybe a horror/cult dimension. The - do you hate them or do you want to be them - question. The popular girls are called the bunnies and they're in a grad school narrative arts program at an Ivy League level school called. . . Warren. Yep. So there's plenty of criticism for the Ivy League, writing programs, grad school, and the pretentious writing of students.
There are some twists and turns I don't think I want to spoil, but you really start questioning everything you think you know. You might say it feels like you're falling down a rabbithole. Mona Awad builds and then ever so slightly takes away so that you're left disoriented and wanting more. I'm still not sure about some things. I need to read it again. But maybe not right away.