Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is repelled by the twee rich girls that make up her class—they all refer to each other as “Bunny.” When Samantha receives an invitation to their fabled “Smut Salon,” she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult. Author Mona Awad will be in conversation with Laura Sims, poet and author of Looker. Mona Awad is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Her debut book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, a novel (structured using linked short stories) about a woman's lifelong struggle with body image issues, won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2016. Her short fiction and non-fiction writing has been published in magazines including McSweeney's, The Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review, and Maisonneuve.
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