I've been reading dark academia and this book fits both that and the speculative fiction category that I treasure. Bunny was spot on for a reader with my tastes.
"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times
"Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.
This is nonfiction but it is absolutely brilliant. For those with a melancholic disposition, such as yours truly, it provided much food for thought. A profoundly hopeful book, the first chapter is nevertheless very depressing. Once you get beyond it, it's wonderful.
Today, we find ourselves surrounded by numerous reasons to despair, from loneliness, suffering and death at an individual level to societal alienation, oppression, sectarian conflict and war. No honest assessment of life can take place without facing up to these facts and it is not surprising that more and more people are beginning to suspect that the human story will end in tragedy.
However, this focus on despair does not paint a complete and accurate picture of reality, which is also inflected with beauty and goodness. Working with examples from poetry and literature, including Virginia Woolf and Jack Gilbert and…
"An intoxicating [thriller], well worth the sleep you will lose as you read 'just one more chapter'." ― Clémence Michallon, internationally bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant
Perfect for fans of Abigail Dean's Girl A and Adrian McKinty's The Chain, What Mother Won't Tell Me is a taut, Nordic thriller with a folk tale twist about a young girl raised in strict isolation, protected from the cruel people in the outside world, who soon realizes the most dangerous strangers are the ones in the bedroom across the hall...
Once upon a time, a young woman named Juno lived in a…
This book traces the afterlives of Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." It describes Irving and his work then traces the tale of Sleepy Hollow through cinema, television, knock-off novels, all the while charting how Irving appears in American culture. It also explores how the American concept of Halloween was deeply influenced by this particular story and how the Hudson Valley is a strange place.
