“What’s your damage?”

86. Bunny – Mona Awad

If all the Heathers wanted to write and it wasn’t just Veronica, they would go to the university in Bunny. I have read many campus novels, but they didn’t all involve the Frankenstein style creation of dumb manservants via rabbits or have descriptions of creative writing workshops that felt as accurate as these felt, and I say that as someone with a Master’s in creative writing. And as someone who is usually not one of the “cool kids,” even in the circles I have traveled in where it seemed possible, there is something sinisterly weird about trying to conform to a group in a major that is about demonstrating creativity. That sort of trying shouldn’t be the focus as doing your own thing is kind of a point of writing and art in general. I, of course, was not a fan of the Bunnies but I did like where Awad took them. They were actually ridiculous instead of just conventionally stuck up, they ended up sad. Even with all that sucking up to the professor and everything. As did the main character, and she pretty much deserved to be sad in the end as well.

Pammy is glad they weren’t experimenting with guinea pigs, as that wouldn’t have fit some of the metaphors anyway.