Mona Awad Book order

In this cult classic, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider in a prestigious New England MFA program, becomes entangled with a clique of eerie, wealthy girls known as “Bunny.” Initially ostracized, she is drawn into their world through an invitation to their Smut Salon, leading her into a surreal and violent realm where monstrous creations come to life with dire consequences. As the story unfolds in When We Love You, Bunny, Sam has achieved critical acclaim with her first novel. However, during a New England book tour, her former frenemies, upset by their portrayal in her work, kidnap her. Now a captive, Sam must listen to the Bunnies’ perspective. They take turns sharing the origins of their unholy alliance, their discovery of unique creative powers, and the phantasmagoric adventure of their initial creation. Bound and gagged, Sam embarks on a wicked journey into the depths of dark academia—a fairy tale slasher that delves into the wonders and horrors of creation, as well as the transformative nature of love and friendship. A blend of Frankenstein and Heathers, this story serves as both a prequel and a sequel, standing alone as a wild, original, and darkly humorous romp in the Bunny-verse crafted by the queen of fever-dreams, Mona Awad.

From the acclaimed author of Bunny comes a gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death leads her on a perilous quest for youth and beauty. Belle has long been obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. After her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle returns to Southern California to confront her mother’s substantial debts and unresolved questions surrounding her death. The situation intensifies when a mysterious woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about Noelle's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. Drawn by a pair of red shoes, Belle enters La Maison de Meduse, the lavish, cult-like spa her mother frequented. There, she uncovers the terrifying truth behind her obsession with the mirror and the dark depths that lie beyond its surface. This surreal journey blends elements of Snow White and Eyes Wide Shut, delving into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complex bond between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, the narrative critiques the beauty industry's cult-like nature and the dangers of internalizing its relentless gaze, reflecting on mortality and our fixation with appearances.

The breath-taking new novel from the author of Bunny.

Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater 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 hellbent 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 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.[Bokinfo]

"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 are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become 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, a caustic art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult and starts to take part in their ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they magically conjure 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 of loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author whose work has been described as "honest, searing and necessary" (Elle)" --

Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.