[2] The film rights were optioned by Bad Robot Productions[3] The protagonist of the story is Samantha Mackey, a Master of Fine Arts and Creative Writing student.

Samantha perceives other students, who are typically from rich families, as phonies and prefers the company of her own imagination to associating with her peers.

Samantha’s college career goes off the rails in her freshman year when, desperate for affirmation, she has an affair with her thesis advisor.

By this time Samantha is under the influence and is not sure if she witnessed or hallucinated sex acts and murder involving a late arrival, a boy wearing one leather glove.

She falls under the influence of the bunnies, who braid her hair in an elaborate coiffure of painful knots and assure her that this is all part of ‘The (Creative) Process'.

Each cleverly layered into Bunny, with cheeky references to Carrie, Heathers, Greek myths and Disney princess flicks.

It can be a bit much.”[4] The Los Angeles Times review dwells on the scenes where The Bunnies try to secure Samantha’s collaboration on a project which they describe as “experimental”, “performance based”, “intertextual” and finally settle on “a hybrid”, which Samantha thinks is “What you call something when you just don’t know what you’re doing anymore.” The reviewer continues, “The scenes in which Samantha and her classmates discuss their respective projects will be darkly familiar to anyone who’s had to endure a creative writing workshop filled with gleefully pretentious would-be auteurs.”[5] Margaret Atwood, author of the classic dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale has named Mona Awad, the author of Bunny her literary heir apparent and has been an admirer of the novel for some time.