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. 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. It is currently optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award.

Her second novel, BUNNY, was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror, the New England Book Award, and won the Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award. Mona Awad is the author of Bunny, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. 13 WAYS won the Amazon Best First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize.

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. Mona Awad is the author of BUNNY, ALLS WELL and 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL. 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. 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.

Bunny by mona awad