It mocks the "workshop" culture of creative writing programs.

Mona Awad’s Bunny , published in 2019 (with a widely-read paperback release in 2020), is a surrealist masterpiece of contemporary gothic fiction. It serves as a sharp, hallucinatory critique of academic pretension, female friendship, and the dark side of the creative process. 🐇 Plot Overview

Set at the prestigious Warren University, the story follows , an outsider in an elite MFA writing program. Samantha is repulsed by—yet obsessed with—a clique of wealthy, twee girls who call each other "Bunny."

It blends "girly" aesthetics with body horror and violence.