https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/missmills/rss/search?query=Awad%2C%20Mona&searchType=author&view=groupedRSS for NodeFri, 10 Apr 2026 09:28:26 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3686540https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C3686540Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3686540192BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735235885/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=“The Secret History meets Jennifer’s Body. This brilliant, sharp, weird book skewers the heightened rhetoric of obsessive female friendship in a way I don’t think I've ever seen before. I loved it and I couldn’t put it down.” - Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one.
"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more different from the other members of her master's program at New England's elite Warren University. A self-conscious scholarship student who prefers the company of her 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 are often found entangled in a group hug so tight it seems their bodies might become permanently fused.
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' exclusive monthly "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn as if by magic to their front door—ditching her only friend, Ava, an audacious art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into Bunny world, and starts to take part in the off-campus "Workshop" where they devise their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision.
A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale about loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and female friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author with tremendous "insight into the often-baffling complexities of being a woman" (The Atlantic).]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4394924https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4394924Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4394924980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735235892/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4951854https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4951854Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4951854192BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668098486/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize

Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women's Wear Daily, and more

"Dark academia clan, rise up! We Love You, Bunny feels like Han Kang's The Vegetarian meets...Heathers." —People

The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse—a world that Margaret Atwood declared "soooo genius."
In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves "Bunny." An invitation to the Bunnies' Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences.

When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they've been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it's her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies' side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers—and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.

Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11527647https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11527647Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11527647980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668098493/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4480660https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C4480660Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4480660192BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735241220/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER
*FINALIST FOR A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR  BEST HORROR*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN AWARD*
“Dear Readers: This is one wild book! . . . No holds barred.” —Margaret Atwood via Twitter
“Mind-blowing. Equal parts brilliant and hilarious.” —Heather O’Neill, bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little Criminals

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering chronic pain who, in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeare’s most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers.
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised—and cost—her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known.
With prose Margaret Atwood has described via Twitter as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged . . . genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All’s Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6058720https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6058720Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6058720980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735241213/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=Winner of the Amazon First Novel Award
Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Longlisted for the 2017 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Longlisted for the 2018 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?
 
In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad simultaneously skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance, and delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. As caustically funny as it is heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2348945https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2348945Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2348945980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143194804/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize

Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women's Wear Daily, and more

"Dark academia clan, rise up! We Love You, Bunny feels like Han Kang's The Vegetarian meets...Heathers." —People

The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse—a world that Margaret Atwood declared "soooo genius."
In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves "Bunny." An invitation to the Bunnies' Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences.

When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they've been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it's her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies' side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers—and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.

Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11505653https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11505653Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11505653980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668208144/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother’s mysterious death. “Surreal, scary and deeply moving—like all the best fairytales” (People).
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Good Housekeeping, PureWow, Our Culture Mag, and more!
For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.
Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9720595https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9720595Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9720595980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735248540/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother’s mysterious death. “Surreal, scary and deeply moving—like all the best fairytales” (People).
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Good Housekeeping, PureWow, Our Culture Mag, and more!
For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.
Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9631473https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9631473Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9631473980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735241244/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER
*FINALIST FOR A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR  BEST HORROR*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN AWARD*
“Dear Readers: This is one wild book! . . . No holds barred.” —Margaret Atwood via Twitter
“Mind-blowing. Equal parts brilliant and hilarious.” —Heather O’Neill, bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little Criminals

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering chronic pain who, in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeare’s most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers.
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised—and cost—her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known.
With prose Margaret Atwood has described via Twitter as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged . . . genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All’s Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6120149https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6120149Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6120149980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735243408/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Enter the Bunnyverse with the “wild, audacious . . . unforgettable” (Los Angeles Times) #DarkAcademia novel that started it all – the precursor to We Love You, Bunny

“[A] cult classic.” —People
“[A] viral sensation.” —USA Today
“O Bunny you are sooo genius!” —Margaret Atwood

“We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. 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. 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 begin 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 tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.
Named a Best Book of the year by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4395334https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4395334Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4395334980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984889478/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=