Bunny by Mona AwadMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Bunny is an intentionally confounding bit of sad girl dark academia. The story follows loner Samantha as she navigates her second year of graduate study in a top-flight Creative Writing MFA program…by joining a coven of barbies who magik campus bunnies into malformed, brainless men to serve at their beck and call (and sometimes be axe-murdered). However; the text is so full of sly references to schizophrenia and meta-commentary on fiction that the line between what is real and what is not in the world of the book becomes blurry bordering on nonexistent. Awad gleefully plays with themes of belonging, of the love/hate relationship between art and money, of generational trauma, all while dousing the reader in buckets of blood and gore. It's an admirable effort, but the text is averse to endorsing any one reading to the point that no single punch really lands. Bunny is an interesting book, that, by design, spins a hollow-feeling narrative.
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