Writing style
Experimental · Fragmentary · Lyrical · Witty
Apple BooksBunny
Literary fiction · Absurdism · Dark comedy · Satire
- Print length
- 320 pagesPenguin Publishing Group, 2020
Description
Samantha is a lonely scholarship student finishing an MFA at a prestigious New England university, where her wealthy, hyperfeminine classmates call one another “Bunny.” She and her fellow outsider Ava mock the clique’s sweetness and the pretensions of their creative-writing program. Then the Bunnies invite Samantha into an exclusive workshop whose drug-fueled rituals transform their fantasies into grotesque, human-shaped beings. Despite her contempt, Samantha is drawn into the group’s language, intimacy, and strange creative practices, widening the distance between her and Ava. Bunny turns workshop competition and the hunger for belonging into surreal campus horror, using black comedy to blur artistic creation, social performance, friendship, and the violent wish to make imagination physically real.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Variable
Tone
Absurdist · Dark · Satirical · Unsettling
Structure
Fragmented · Nonlinear
Focus
Atmosphere · Relationships · Voice
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 4 / 5
- Ideas
- 4 / 5
- Structure
- 4 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525559757
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