Sunday, January 5, 2025

Six novels for novelists

At B&N Reads Isabelle McConville tagged six novels for novelists. One title on the list:
Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad

While you may have heard of the dark, fairytale-like twists and turns of Bunny, did you know this story takes place in a highly exclusive MFA program at a prestigious New England university (besides, only writers would get into this much of a wacky mess)? Meet the Bunnies, a clique of women that call each other Bunny and participate in things called “Smut Salon” parties. Awad offers a candid and barbed portrait of the nuances of femininity and societal expectations forced onto women that readers will devour.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Bunny is among Chris Wheatley's six top dark academia novels and Gnesis Villar's seven books about the struggle of being a writer.

--Marsal Zeringue