I didn't quite understand fairy tales on a logical plane, but I understood emotionally what was going on in the story. They were the stories that I was interested in reading again and again. " Alice in Wonderland was also a huge influence for this book. That story, even though it has a sweetness to it, has a sinister, mysterious and lonely quality to it as well. There is actually a fairy tale that features a rabbit as an animal bridegroom. It's a Beauty and the Beast-like story called The Hare's Bride. Mona Awad on body image and self-acceptance.It's this sense of sweetness and the adorable - and this sense of the more sinister and the mysterious and the unexplained." The bunny always had different kinds of feelings associated with it that are in conflict. "There is such an overt, almost aggressive sweetness to the iconography around bunnies. Awad's previous book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was shortlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.Īwad spoke with Shelagh Rogers about writing Bunny. It's about creative writing student Samantha Heather Mackey, a woman who has an otherworldly encounter with a group of tight-knit rich girls from her MFA program.īunny is being adapted for television by AMC. Mona Awad's novel Bunnyis a surreal fairy tale set at an elite American university.
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