On the television screen, Dorothy was still in black and white singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Was I supposed to cry? My mother seemed to expect it. Ditto the gold trinkets my father would bring back from his many trips abroad. She wore the caftan because she liked to wear caftans at home. My mother was a French-Canadian Catholic of Serbian Irish descent.

Our walls bore a mix of contemporary paintings and the papyrus my father would bring back from his travels. The Wizard of Oz was on television in the living room. We were living in Montreal at the time, where I was born, where my parents had met. I remember she was wearing an Egyptian caftan that emphasized her pale skin, gold bracelets and charms dangling from her wrists. “Your father is leaving,” my mother said one night when I was seven. That he’s determined to go is something I know all too well. Between the language barrier, my father’s Byzantine prevarications, and perhaps his need to protect me, I quickly lose my faith, my footing, in his stories. I’ve long given up trying to get particulars. He’s also going, he says, to do some hotel business. I can’t just sit here.” He tells me he wants to clear his name from some longstanding legal matters. 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.“I have to make something happen. 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. We very nearly did, didn't we? Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times Awad is a stone-cold genius. Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius! Margaret Atwood, via Twitter A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel. Shop Barnes & Noble Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad online at.

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