Bunny

We were simply some naive ladies attempting to create something lovely in the dark. We were almost dead. We almost did, didn't we?

In the tiny, very selective MFA programme at Warren University in New England, Samantha Heather Mackey could not feel more of an outcast. The other members of her fiction writing cohort, a group of painfully pretentious affluent ladies who call each other Bunny and seem to move and talk as a single entity, completely repulse the scholarship student. She is a loner who would much rather be alone with her dark imagination than with most others.

However, all changes when Samantha gets an invitation to the renowned Smut Salon of the Bunnies and, strangely, finds herself lured to their front door, leaving behind her sole friend, Ava. The lines between fact and fantasy blur as Samantha delves more and more into the eerie yet sweet world of the Bunnies, starting with their ceremonial off-campus Workshop where they summon their hideous creatures. Her relationships with Ava and the Bunnies are about to collide fatally.

Bunny, the captivating new book from one of our bravest writers on the experiences of women, is a narrative of friendship and desire, loneliness and belonging, and the wonderful and terrifying power of the human imagination.

Listed by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library as a Best Book of 2019