The disturbing and hilarious new novel 'Bunny' follows an MFA student who gets taken in by a clique of girls called the Bunnies
As if you needed any more proof that universities aren't so much bastions of intellectual rigorousness and moral integrity , along hops Mona Awad's Bunny, a subversive, darkly hilarious look at the dark underbelly of an elite graduate writing program in a cloistered New England town. It's grotesque and visceral, simultaneously surreal and achingly familiar—and, yes, there are bunnies, both real and, like, too real.
Anyone who's read The Secret History knows that the liberal arts experience offers a pretty specific feeling of seclusion and the intensity of really being able to be allowed and encouraged to be in your own head like none other. So: Why is school such a scary place? I think some of it was intuitive, but I think the class difference was something that I was consciously cultivating and aware of, just because there is such a class disparity in a lot of these university towns. And it does kind of create the unsettling atmosphere that, to me anyway in my own experience of being in these kinds of communities, is a little bit prolific. It is disturbing, and I wanted to amp that up, and make it even more gothic, just for fun and for drama.
Because it's so weird. And there are so many different kinds of power dynamics inside, and they're always shifting—they're always shifting. And I feel like, in a tight clique, when you're an outsider, you know where you stand. But when you're inside, you don't know where you stand. That's always changing, and so it can be very disorienting, I think.
No, but you can become, or think you're becoming, something different and better. Like, you feel like by succumbing to the group, you're gaining a new kind of power. Are MFAs kind of, I don't know, problematic? I think they kind of are. I mean, I'm a product of the system. I wrote 13 Ways as a result of my MFA. I did have a great workshop, so they were very supportive of my book. And I wrote Bunny in a graduate school setting [while getting my Ph.D.], and they were also very supportive. But I see a lot of potential for somebody to kind of fall down a rabbit hole, I really do. If you go in without a project, I think it can be very easy to get lost.
Perhaps this would be less egregious if Bonnie wasn't already so marginalized within the series, with most of her personality comprised upon physical traits, with an overwhelming amount of attention placed on her body, whether by seeing her dance more freely at a kid's birthday party, or focusing on her sensuality and Zenned-out temperament during her yoga practice.
Can you hear that? It's the sound of us cackling with laughter and letting out sighs of relief that finally, somebody said it. I know that not all white people struggle with rhythm and beat counts, but enough of them do—Paulson said it runs in her family—that when Rihanna said this, I felt it in my spirit. Thank you, sis.
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