Along with our friends at Meet Cute Bookshop, we’re excited to present Mona Awad in conversation with Sarah Gailey for the paperback release of We Love You, Bunny! This event includes a conversation, Q&A and then book signing with both authors. Filled with literary delights, dark academia and glittering humor, don’t miss this night out with an author Margaret Atwood described as her “literary heir.”
Book purchase required for entry; your book is your“ticket,” and adds your name to our guest list. Proceeds from book sales support the San Diego Public Library.
Please read this full page of information before making any event purchase. Event details and terms of purchase are included below. Note: We do expect this event to sell out, so snag your spot early!
ABOUT THE BOOK
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize
“We Love You, Bunny feels like Han Kang’s The Vegetarian meets… Heathers.” —People
“Wacky and delicious.” —Lauren Groff
“Outstanding … highly addictive, darkly comedic… Awad will have readers racing to find out how it all ends— and they won’t be disappointed once the story reaches its wild finale. ” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
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 ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “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 deadly and wondrous 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 intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.
Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award, and she was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Bunny was a finalist for a New England Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Rouge is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. Margaret Atwood named Awad her “literary heir” in The New York Times’s T Magazine. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.
Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award and British Fantasy Award winning, bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. Their nonfiction has been published by dozens of venues internationally. Their fiction has been translated around the world. They have written comics for Marvel, EC, and BOOM! Studios, including multiple original series. They are the editor and publisher of Stone Soup and Love Letters: Reasons To Be Alive. You can find links to their work at sarahgailey.com.
EVENT INFORMATION
Seat and signed books:
- 1 entry is the price of the book (with tax); each purchase of 1 book comes bundled with1 seat. Event bundles will be available only until the venue reaches capacity.
- Each book and seat bundle comes with a PRESIGNED copy of We Love You, Bunny.
- You will pick it up at the event!
- Each event bundle allows for one (1) entry into the event for our conversation and signing line with Mona Awad.
- No event entry or signing line access without an event bundle purchase.
- PLEASE NOTE: Event bundles non-transferable. If you are not able to attend the event, please contact us for a refund or to have a signed book made available for pick-up or shipping. We cannot offer refunds within 72 hours of the event start time.
Arrival information:
- EVENT START TIME: The author conversation will begin at 7:00 pm.
- Door open at 6:00 pm.
- PARKING INFO: There is paid parking available on-site using the underground parking garage 301 N. 11th Ave.
- Because this event is after the library’s regular hours, parking validation isn’t available. For more information on parking at the Central Library, go to: https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/central-library/parking
- RIDESHARE INFO: For rideshare and drop-off, please use the after-hours entrance by the Auditorium, near the intersection of K Street and 11th Ave.
- ACCESSIBILITY: The venue is wheelchair accessible. If you would like to reach out regarding specific accommodations, please email us at events@libraryfoundationsd.org
