{ "item_title" : "We Love You, Bunny", "item_author" : [" Mona Awad "], "item_description" : "AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERA finalist for the 2025 Giller PrizeNamed a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women's Wear Daily, and moreDark academia clan, rise up We Love You, Bunny feels like Han Kang's The Vegetarian meets...Heathers. --PeopleThe highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse--a world that Margaret Atwood declared soooo genius. In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves Bunny. An invitation to the Bunnies' Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences. When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they've been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it's her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies' side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers--and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/66/805/986/166805986X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "30.00", "online_price" : "26.40", "our_price" : "26.40", "club_price" : "26.40", "savings_pct" : "12", "savings_amt" : "3.60", "club_savings_pct" : "12", "club_savings_amt" : "3.60", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "30.00" } }

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An MFA program can give a writer the perfect opportunity to read, learn and develop their craft. At least, that’s the idea. Mona Awad’s 2019 novel Bunny reveled in the not-so-nurturing aspects of MFAs: the pressure to be innovative and interesting, the too-tight deadlines and the penchant of writers to form cliques (if you were in an MFA program and think to yourself, “There were no cliques in my MFA!” you were probably running with the in crowd). Awad combined these elements with a liberal serving of horror and dark academia, producing a thrilling and creepy novel about Samantha, a self-styled outsider who uncovers the violent truth behind a cultish squad of her fellow fiction writers, the Bunnies. In this highly anticipated sequel, We Love You, Bunny, the Bunnies get to tell the story from their perspective. If readers thought Bunny was fun, there’s a whole feast of delights and frights waiting for them in this follow-up. The book begins with Samantha returning to her alma mater, Warren, a fictional Ivy League with a prestigious MFA. It’s a triumphant stop on the book tour for her bestselling debut novel, a fictionalization of her dreadful time with the Bunnies at Warren. The Bunnies are quite rightly pissed at Sam’s success—it’s not just jealousy, it’s about justice for the way they were depicted! To get their revenge, they kidnap Sam at her book event and take her hostage. Told by the Bunnies to their kidnapped audience of one, We Love You, Bunny has a terrifying and hilarious voice, one that makes readers feel they’re tied up with Sam. The voices of the Bunnies reveal how wrong Sam got them, and how though they became a homogeneous unit, these women started out as four distinctly twisted parts, each with her own baggage. Awad’s specialties, like family dysfunction and smatterings of pop culture, make this read as enjoyable as any of her other works. While Awad says that We Love You, Bunny can stand on its own, understanding the references from Bunny gives it a feeling of completion, like going to a high school reunion hungry to settle a score. Reliving the events from Bunny in the voices of the Bunnies themselves grants the story a new depth but also a disorienting fragmentation. It’s up to readers to decide whose version they want to believe.