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

A darkly funny sequel to *Bunny*, set in the same surreal world of twisted friendships and literary satire.

«Una novela ácida, tierna y repleta de humor negro, como el de Lena Dunham enGirls»,The Washington PostUna novela original, desenfadada e imprevisible sobre la infelicidad y sobre nuestro derecho ser

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 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.

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 breath taking new novel from the author of Bunny

THE TIKTOK SENSATIONMeet BUNNY: the darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOODWe 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 provides a hilarious look at the dark side of female friendship from one of fiction's most original voices. 'The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body.Brilliant, sharp, weird... I loved it and I couldn't put it down.' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN 'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition.' LENA DUNHAM 'Hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery.' DAILY MAIL 'Cerebral and complusively readable.' VANITY FAIR

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.

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.