Bunny

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at an elite New England university. 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 seem to move and speak as one.

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, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality start to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole is the author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize that won the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and received an Honorable Mention from the Arab American Book Awards. The recipient of an MFA in fiction from Brown University and a PhD in English and creative writing
from the University of Denver, she has published work in Time, Vice, Electric Literature, McSweeney's, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.