The next day, Samantha receives a note in her mailbox from the Bunnies inviting her to a literary party they call “Smut Salon” (9). A poetry student named Jonah tries to talk to Samantha, but she brushes him off. She has also given them individual nicknames, Cupcake (real name Caroline), Vignette (Victoria), the Duchess (Eleanor), and Creepy Doll (Kira). They are a tight-knit clique who shower one another with affection, and Samantha feels excluded by them. She expresses her disdain for the four other women in her art class, whom she refers to as “the Bunnies” (3) because of their mutual nickname for each other. Samantha is there with her only friend, Ava, a dropout from the nearby art school. The novel opens with narrator Samantha Heather Mackey attending a welcome back party at Warren University, where she is studying to get her MFA in fiction. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Awad, Mona.
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