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SUMMARY:White Whale book store event
DESCRIPTION:White Whale is thrilled to welcome Mona Awad\, bestselling auth
 or of the novels Rouge\, All’s Well\, Bunny\, and 13 Ways of Looking 
 at a Fat Girl\, to Pittsburgh! We're celebrating the paperback release of
  her latest\, We Love You\, Bunny\, which was an instant New York Times
  bestseller\, an LA Times bestseller\, a USA Today bestseller and a nat
 ional bestseller. This offsite event will be held at the First Unitarian C
 hurch in Shadyside\, and Mona will be joined in conversation by local writ
 er and dear friend of White Whale\, Clare Beams.\n\n***Tickets are require
 d to attend this event. Each ticket includes a SIGNED PAPERBACK of We Lov
 e You\, Bunny—plus some festive swag! We will have additional copies for
  purchase\, along witih copies of Mona Awad's other novels\, on hand for p
 urchase. Following the talk\, there will be a signing line for personaliza
 tion.***\n\nCan’t make it? We'll have signed books after the event\, and
  you can snag a copy here! Just make a note at checkout that you'd like t
 o wait for a signed copy.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\nWe Love You\, Bunny is the
  highly anticipated follow-up to the viral sensation Bunny\, a brilliantly
  written and delirious literary horror novel set in the Bunny-verse—a wo
 rld that Margaret Atwood declared “soooo genius.” Named a Must-Read Pi
 ck by The New York Times\, Oprah Daily\, People\, Associated Press\, 
 Marie Claire\, Bustle\, The Boston Globe\, Goodreads\, Women’s Wear D
 aily\, and more.\n\nIn the cult classic novel Bunny\, Samantha Heather Ma
 ckey was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet ric
 h girls in her New England MFA program 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.\n\nWhen We Love You\, Bunny opens\, Sam has just published he
 r first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book t
 our\, 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 in this “dark\, twisted satire of acade
 mia” (The New York Times).\n\nWe Love You\, Bunny is both a prequel and
  a sequel\, and a darkly comic and totally complete stand-alone novel that
  “feels like Han Kang’s The Vegetarian meets the 80s film Heathers” 
 (People).\n\nMONA AWAD is the New York Times bestselling author of the no
 vels Rouge\, All’s Well\, Bunny\, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. 
 She is a four-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award\, a two-time fina
 list for the Giller Prize\, and the recipient of an Amazon Best First Nove
 l Award. Bunny is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Produc
 tions. Margaret Atwood named Awad her “literary heir” in The New York 
 Times’s T Magazine. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New
  York Times\, Ploughshares\, McSweeney’s and TIME\, among others\, and h
 as been translated into 18 languages. She divides her time between Boston 
 and La Jolla.\n\nCLARE BEAMS is the author of the novels The Garden and T
 he Illness Lesson (Doubleday) both New York Times Editors’ Choices\, and
  the story collection We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books) which w
 on the Bard Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story\, C
 onjunctions\, Ecotone\, McSweeney's\, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MF
 A program at Randolph College.
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