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Mona Awad
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"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...
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Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.
Lizzie has never liked the way she looks. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends,...
3) All's well
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"Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead....
4) Bunny
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"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
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"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
6) Rouge
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Da che ricordi, Belle – giovane commessa in un negozio di abbigliamento – è sempre stata ossessionata dalla sua pelle e dai video sulla skincare, guardarli è sempre stato il suo passatempo. Quando però sua madre Noelle, una bizzarra donna canadese trapiantata in California che non vede da tempo, muore misteriosamente, Belle parte dalle nevi di Montréal diretta nel sud degli Stati Uniti, ad affrontare la difficile eredità che la madre le ha...
7) Tutto è bene
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Miranda Fitch cammina sul filo della vita come un funambolo, in bilico tra amore per l'arte e orrore per la quotidianità. L'incidente che ha messo fine alla sua promettente carriera di attrice l'ha lasciata con un mal di schiena inestinguibile, un matrimonio fallito e una crescente dipendenza dagli antidolorifici. E adesso è sul punto di perdere il lavoro da regista teatrale al college. Decisa a mettere in scena Tutto è bene quel che finisce bene...
8) Bunny
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Samantha Heather Mackey è un'assoluta outsider alla Warren University dove frequenta un corso iperselettivo di scrittura creativa. La fantasia di Samantha è molto pi cupa di quella della maggior parte degli studenti del suo anno, tanto pi quando si tratta del gruppetto di ragazze ricche e vestite di colori pastello che incontra sempre a lezione. Tra loro si chiamano Bunny, "coniglietta", e passano il tempo a mangiare mini cupcake, a dirsi l'un l'altra...
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Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."