Elite MFA writing programs have produced innumerable talents—including Mona Awad herself, who earned her degree from Brown University—and untold numbers of horrifying works, but few have produced an actual horror story about an MFA program. In the sharply observed and witty Bunny, a misfit student gets welcomed into a detestable clique of classmates she calls the Bunnies because of their cloying way of speaking to one another; then, rather literally, heads explode. In one of the year’s most memorably morbid comedies, the women conjure “drafts” of creative work that assume a surreal and disturbing form.
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