Mona Awad

«Solo éramos unas jovencitas inocentes que intentaban hacer algo bonito en mitad de la noche. Estuvimos a punto de morir. Nos faltó muy poco, ¿a que sí?».Samantha Heather Mackey no podría encajar men

Hola, Bunny. Ha pasado mucho tiempo, ¿verdad?Te queremos, Bunny: Te hemos echado de menos, vaya que sí. Un montón.Tras haber escapado del violento y surrealista mundo de las Bunnies, Samantha Heather esta convencida de que ha dejado atras lo peor. Acaba de publicar su primera novela, que ha sido aclamada por los criticos, y esta en plena gira literaria, cuando sus amienemigas, furiosas por el retrato que ofrece de ellas en el libro, la secuestran.Ahora, convertida en una espectadora cautiva, es su turno (y el nuestro) de escuchar la version de la historia de las Bunnies. Una por una, toman la palabra (y el hacha) para relatar los dolores de parto de su alianza impia, el descubrimiento de sus inusuales poderes creativos y la aventura fantasmagorica que supuso conjurar su primera creacion.Con Sam atada y amordazada, nos embarcamos en un cuento de hadas con tintes de slasher que explora los prodigios y los horrores del acto creativo (sin olvidar los poderes transformadores del amor y la amistad, Bunny).A modo de cruce entre Frankenstein y Escuela de jovenes asesinos, Te queremos, Bunny es una precuela y una secuela, y al mismo tiempo una novela independiente y desinhibida que irradia originalidad. Abre tu corazon, Bunny, y embarcate en una travesia deslumbrante y divertida por el bunny verso de la mano de la reina del delirio febril, Mona Awad.Awad domina el ingenio mordaz y las tramas satiricas, posee un gran talento para desarrollar personajes y ofrece una lucida metacritica de los cursos de Escritura Creativa que hace que su historia cale hondo, como solo pueden hacerlo los corazones rotos y las hachas de guerra. Es una novela dark academia digna de bookstagram: inquietante, alegorica y llena de matices. Los fans de Margaret Atwood, R.F. Kuang y Marisha Pessl se deleitaran con este libro, cuyo intelectualismo embriagador e inquietante consolida la reputacion de Awad como una de las escritoras satiricas y feministas mas audaces de la actualidad. Library Journal (reseña destacada)

«Solo éramos unas jovencitas inocentes que intentaban hacer algo bonito en mitad de la noche. Estuvimos a punto de morir. Nos faltó muy poco, ¿a que sí?».Samantha Heather Mackey no podría encajar men

The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny a brilliantly written laugh out loud funny dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny verse a world that Margaret Atwood declared soooo genius In the cult classic novel Bunny Samantha Heather Mackey a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet rich girl cohort who call one another Bunny An invitation to the Bunnies Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole pun intended into the violently surreal world of their off campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences When We Love You Bunny opens Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim But at a New England stop on her book tour her one time frenemies furious at the way they ve been portrayed kidnap her Now a captive audience it s her and our turn to hear the Bunnies side of the story One by one they take turns holding the axe and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance their discovery of their unusual creative powers and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation With a bound and gagged Sam we embark on a wickedly intoxicat

The tragicomic novel of the summer, a 'dark and insane gem' from the author of the critically acclaimed TikTok sensation Bunny 'A dazzling wild ride of a novel - daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical.' - George Saunders 'All's Well is an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny.' - Lauren Groff 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.Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award.

«Una novela ácida, tierna y repleta de humor negro, como el de Lena Dunham en Girls», The Washington Post «Divertida y desgarradora», People Una novela original, desenfadada e imprevisible sobre la i

No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius! MARGARET ATWOOD.We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny.Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny.But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole.Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny is a spellbinding trip of a novel from one of fictions most original new voices.A brilliant, utterly unique peek into the dark side of female friendship SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition LENA DUNHAM. Hilarious and subversive, magical and knife-sharp LAURA VAN DEN BERG. Cerebral and compulsively readable VANITY FAIR. Enchanting and stunningly bizarre PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

"A dazzling wild ride of a novel daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical. Mona Awad is a powerful and poetic storyteller, telling us something new and profound here about the connection between suffering and elation. When I was away from this book, I longed to get back to it." George Saunders, New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo"Wild and exhilarating and so fresh it takes your breath away, Alls Well is an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny, and our own subtle moral failures when we brush up against the pain of others. Mona Awads talent is so vital that it absolutely roars out of her. " Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies"Tragic, macabre, and wicked. I laughed out loud the whole way through. One of the funniest books Ive read in years." Heather ONeill, author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel"Really funny ... The satirical targets, all brilliantly hit, include useless physios, entitled students, internet advertising and for all you romantics out there love!"Wendy Holden in the Daily Mail Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award Miranda Fitchs 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 shes on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeares Alls 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. Thats when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Mirandas past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whats coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain thats 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. Alls 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.

A National BestsellerA USA TODAY BestsellerA New York Times Editors ChoiceA Goodreads Choice Award FinalistNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor,and Literary HubFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age (Good Housekeeping) and darkly funny horror novel (NYLON) about a lonely young woman whos drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mothers mysterious death. Surreal, scary and deeply movinglike all the best fairy tales (People).A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Tor, Good Housekeeping, and more!For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mothers considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mothers demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mothers) obsession with the mirrorand the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industryas well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

Samantha Heather Mackey se siente como una outsider en su programa de posgrado de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Warren. Samantha prefiere la compañía de su imaginación antes que la vida social que le ofrece a universidad. Siente una absoluta repulsa por sus compañeras de clase, un grupo de chicas ricas que no hacen mas que referirse unas a otras como conejitas y se llaman Bunny entre si.

This book sparkles with wit. . . . Awad knows how to talk about the raw struggles of female friendships, sex, contact, humanness, and her voice is a wry celebration of all of this at once. Aimee Bender "Honest, searing, and necessary." "Elle" Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks even though her best friend Mel says she s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad simultaneously skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance, and delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. As caustically funny as it is heartbreaking, "13 Ways of Looking at a" "Fat Girl "introduces a vital new voice in fiction. NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2016 BY ELLE, BUSTLE, AND "THE GLOBE AND MAIL "(CANADA)"

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother's fate and find a connection that is more than skin deep?A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 in The Guardian, i newspaper, The New York Times, Time, Globe and Mail, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, TOR, Good Housekeeping, Our Culture Mag, and more! 'You think, "She's not going to go there...yes, she is.' Margaret Atwood 'The trancelike, rhapsodic language and deepening atmosphere of unreality make for a narrative that oozes with unease.' The Guardian 'Rouge is a must-read for anyone who has found themselves obsessively, and even dangerously, fixated on self-improvement. [...] Dreamline, hypnotic and enchanting in its language, Rouge proves Awad is a huge talent' Stylist, Book of the Month 'A tale of insidious damage of envy and our preoccupation with appearances.Anyone maintaining a ten-step Korean skincare regimen may feel seen. [...] Awad ramps up the grand guignol hysteria rather splendidly, chucking in some film noir tropes for good measure as we hurtle towards a demonic denouement' The Times 'Rouge is a story in which dreams become nightmares and vice versa. Desire and danger walk hand-in-hand and Awad skilfully manipulates the vertiginous tension between them.

LE BEST-SELLER PHÉNOMÈNE TIKTOK INTERNATIONAL ENFIN TRADUIT EN FRANÇAIS…Bienvenue à Garenn, où la littérature est un art mortel.Samantha Mackey, étudiante boursière cynique et un brin asociale, se se

*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* *USA TODAY BESTSELLER* A New York Times Editors ChoiceFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age (Good Housekeeping) and darkly funny horror novel (NYLON) about a lonely young woman whos drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mothers mysterious death. Surreal, scary and deeply movinglike all the best fairytales (People).A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Good Housekeeping, PureWow, Our Culture Mag, and more!For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mothers considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mothers demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mothers) obsession with the mirrorand the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industryas well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER*FINALIST FOR A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST HORROR**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN AWARD*Dear Readers: This is one wild book! . . . No holds barred. Margaret Atwood via TwitterMind-blowing. Equal parts brilliant and hilarious. Heather ONeill, bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little CriminalsFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering chronic pain who, in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeares most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers. Miranda Fitchs life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now shes on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeares Alls Well That Ends Well, the play that promisedand costher everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. Thats when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Mirandas past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whats coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain thats kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described via Twitter as no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged . . . genius, Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. Alls 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.

From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as genius, comes a wild, and exhilarating (Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeares most maligned play will remedy all that ails herbut at what cost?Miranda Fitchs 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, shes on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeares Alls 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.Thats when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Mirandas past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whats coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain thats kept her from the spotlight is made known.Alls Well is a fabulous novel (Mary Karr, author of Lit) about a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.

From the author of Bunny, a hilarious, heartbreaking book (People) about a woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform Stunning . . . As you watch Lizzie navigate fraught relationshipswith food, men, girlfriends, her parents and even with herselfyoull want to grab a friend and say: Whoa. This. Exactly. Washington PostGrowing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she lookseven though her best friend Mel says shes the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but shes afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses.She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance. Brilliant, hilarious, and heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction.WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDFINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION FOR FICTION

The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse a world that Margaret Atwood declared soooo genius. In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another Bunny). An invitation to the Bunnies Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences.When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way theyve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, its her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete standalone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to a dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever dream, Mona Awad.Fresh yet nostalgic, darkly funny and a complete page-turner - Daily MirrorA goofy, overblown flower of a book with lots of thorns that pleasurably scratch GuardianUnhinged in the best way i paper

NATIONAL BESTSELLEREnter the Bunnyverse with the wild, audacious . . . unforgettable (Los Angeles Times) #DarkAcademia novel that started it all the precursor to We Love You, Bunny[A] cult classic. People [A] viral sensation. USA TodayO Bunny you are sooo genius! Margaret AtwoodWe were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didnt we?Samantha Heather Mackey couldnt be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New Englands 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 seem to move and speak as 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, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.Named a Best Book of the year by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library