It starts innocently: a little envious student – the protagonist, Samantha Heather Mackey – who constantly whines about how annoying the Bunnies are, and how much she hopes for their chests to implode during their hugging sessions. Set in a prestigious New England MFA writing program with the coterie in the same group, what could go wrong? Where It Went Wrong Mona Awad, the author of “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl”, combines humour and fiction flawlessly – I caught myself laughing then retracting from the novel multiple times when I read it.Ī group of four privileged women who have it all – money, friends, and smarts an unhappy, lonely scholar with an overactive imagination. Whatever you want to call it, this book is a dark, thrilling satire it’s refreshing and new. Heathers meet The Craft 1996 Mean Girls meet witchcraft. If you read it, go straight to Analysis, though you can read the whole thing if you want. If you have already read this book, you don’t need to read Where It Went Wrong, The First Smut Salon, and The Line between Reality and Madness I, II, and III – those are summaries for those who didn’t read the book to get the gist and context for the analysis.

That they would choke on each other’s blandly grassy perfume. That they would each get tangled in their Game of Thrones hair, choked by their ornate braids they were forever braiding into each other’s heart-shaped little heads. That their ardent squeezing might abuse the flesh to ooze from the sleeves, neckholes, and A-line hems of their cupcake dresses like inane frosting. I quietly prayed for the hug implosion all year last year.

Mona awad bunny