My ideas got bigger and bigger, so I eventually began to write novels. “I was such a shy kid, and I had never had an effect on anyone,” she says. She remembers reading a poem in class that she wrote about a sports figure and getting positive reactions from her teacher and fellow 10-year-olds. Providence is this gothic, creepy, weird, and corrupt city.”Īwad, who was born and raised in Montreal, always wanted to be a writer. “Obviously, there were no beheadings going on - well, maybe metaphorically - but it was very fertile ground for a lot of the ideas I explored in the book. “It was a harrowing experience in a couple of ways that I didn’t anticipate,” Awad says. She started thinking that maybe one day she would write about her time in the M.F.A. It was there that she wrote 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, which was published in 2016 by Penguin and made best-of-the-year lists at NPR, The Atlantic, and Time Out New York. The story is inspired by Awad’s experience at Brown University, in Providence, R.I., where she got an M.F.A. They represent something you want - the Bunnies embody privilege, wealth, confidence, and a kind of closeness that Samantha craves.” The conflict is being embraced by people you don’t like who have power over you. It’s one of the situations where the struggle is to claim your authentic self and the other people who are a part of that. “She’s longing for a deep friendship, and Ava represents that. “And female cruelty is a particular type that is unique to women.” Samantha craves the Bunnies’ acceptance, even though she can’t stand them. “Female friendships are complicated,” Awad says. Mona Awad has turned her dark imagination about female friendship into the satirical horror novel Bunny. Samantha gets sucked into the Bunny cult, taking part in the weird rites of their “Workshop,” where they conjure up monstrous fantasies. Things change when Samantha receives an invitation to one of the Bunnies’ notorious “Smut Salons” and can’t resist attending, even at the expense of abandoning her best friend, Ava, who is equally repelled by the Bunnies. She is totally disgusted by a clique among her classmates -affected and entitled women who call each other Bunny and are so forcefully in sync, they almost function as one person. Studying on a scholarship, she is a loner with a gothic imagination. program at fictional Warren University in New England. The protagonist, Samantha Heather Mackey, feels like an outsider in her small creative writing M.F.A. She’ll be giving a free virtual reading from it this Saturday on Zoom via East End Books Ptown. In her latest book, Bunny, Mona Awad has crafted a darkly funny horror story about female friendships, class anxiety, art, and academia that has been likened to Heathers, Mean Girls, The Witches of Eastwick, and Swiftian satire.
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