Learn an Excerpt From Mona Awad’s Literary Thriller ‘We Love You, Bunny’ (Unique)

Mona Awad has returned and her newest will get beneath your pores and skin simply the way in which her followers have come to anticipate.

The writer behind favorites like All’s Nicely and Rogue, has shared an unique sneak peek at her forthcoming novel, We Love You, Bunny. Out this fall from Marysue Rucci Books, the novel is a follow-up to her cult basic, Bunny.

Bunny, described as Han Kang’s The Vegetarian meets the 80s movie Heathers, follows Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely scholar within the elite MFA writing program at Warren College. When she’s invited to affix the Smut Salon, a writing group run by a clique of women who seek advice from themselves as The Bunnies, she turns into enmeshed in a world that rapidly turns sinister.

In We Love You, Bunny, Sam is now a printed writer on tour for her first novel. When she stops in New England, nonetheless, she’s greeted by her former frenemies. This sequel tells their aspect of the story, from how they first shaped the Smut Salon to the secrets and techniques of how The Bunnies actually gained their inventive powers.

“With a sure and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the center of darkish academia: a fairytale slasher that explores the surprise and horror of creation itself,” the e-book’s synopsis teases.

Must learn extra? See beneath for an unique excerpt from We Love You, Bunny.

Hello, Bunny.

It’s been a short while, hasn’t it? We missed you, we actually did.

So a lot.

And take a look at you now, wow. All gothed out once more. Again to sporting your scary-bleak garments and your darkish hair nonetheless hanging in entrance of your eye, how humorous. You’ve been busy since we final noticed you, haven’t you? Very busy, apparently, scribble-scribbling at the hours of darkness. Publishing your little novel. About us, so enjoyable. And it’s loved a considerably reasonable success. Good for you! Wonderful, actually, what individuals will learn these days. That’s why we introduced you up right here, in reality, to Kyra’s attic (keep in mind this attic?) for slightly congratulatory toast amongst outdated buddies. A comfortable reunion of kinds along with your former MFA cohort, these you’ve left within the literary mud, so to talk, ha ha ha. Not that we’re bitter, Bunny, oh my god, by no means. We’re elevating our glasses to you, aren’t we?

What’s that, Bunny? You possibly can’t increase your glass?

Oh, due to the restraints, that’s proper.

Sorry about these.

Nicely, we’ll toast for you, how’s that? We may use a little bit of a tipple, frankly, beneath the circumstances. A little bit Gentle and Sunny, keep in mind these? Oh, we wouldn’t squirm in that chair a lot, Bunny, not if we had been you. It’s simply going to trigger extra bruises on these wrists, that neck, so like a swan’s…

However we digress.

Sorry once more we needed to tie you up slightly. However it’s simply so very beautiful to catch up like this, isn’t it, simply the 5 of us right here at the hours of darkness? You all cozy in your chair, and the 4 of us standing shut and lovely in our rabbit masks, making a semicircle of such love and understanding throughout you, our clothes shining prettily by the sunshine of the hunter’s moon. It’s a hunter’s moon tonight, Bunny, oh sure. Have a look at it full and glowing via the window (on All Hallows’ Eve, no much less!), and the evening so fantastically stuffed with screaming. Your screaming included. 

Most likely you’ve dreamed of this second, haven’t you? We’ve got too, belief. And after we noticed on the Warren scholar listserv that our very personal former peer was coming again to city, on tour for her debut novel, the primary amongst our cohort to publish, we thought, Why not make these goals a actuality? Why not help our outdated buddy Sam Mackey?

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So humorous, your face, once you noticed us within the viewers, by the way in which. How we had been applauding you, not with our fingers a lot, however with our eyes. You type of froze for a minute, didn’t you, at your podium, on the sight of us sitting there within the very again row, every of us in a special colour gown in order that collectively we made such a cheerful rainbow, we embodied the holy parts of earth, air, water and fireplace. So smiling at you. So supporting. You type of cried slightly once you first made eye contact, didn’t you? We did too, Bunny.

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Oh, don’t cry, Bunny! We’re not going to kill you, don’t be foolish! This isn’t your novel, that is actuality, keep in mind? We’re not murderers IRL, regardless of the very ick brush with which you selected to color us. No, no, we’re simply going to have slightly chat, is all, one after the other by one after the other. Taking turns with you in our telling, doesn’t that sound enjoyable? Form of like the last word Smut Salon. (You keep in mind Smut Salon, don’t you?) As on your novel, properly, we’ve no intention of commenting, don’t fear, okay? About all of that: no remark, as they are saying. Besides that you just acquired it incorrect. So f—ing incorrect. About us.

Ax murderers? Please.

(Oh, finest to not battle, Bunny, it is going to solely make the restraints extra ouch.)

We thought we’d inform you the story, the stunning little story, Bunny, of us.

How we got here collectively that first 12 months.

How, collectively, we broke actuality and mainly reinvented the legal guidelines of the pure world.

How we, too, made one thing lovely as soon as, oh sure. Extra lovely than something you can ever dream in your small, small thoughts. And actual, too. Earlier than. Lengthy earlier than you ever walked into the image. If you had been nothing, in reality, however a small, darkish speck within the nook of our minds and eyes.

So sit again, chill out, and hear, okay?

As a result of right here tonight within the moon-splashed darkish, it truly is excessive time for us to make one thing lovely once more.

Condensed and excerpted from We Love You, Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad. Copyright © 2025 by Mona Awad. Reprinted by permission of Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC.

We Love You, Bunny will hit cabinets on Sept. 23 and is now accessible for preorder, wherever books are offered.