This mention of home brings Samantha somewhat unpleasant memories, and because the world hates her, she is asked what home means to her during workshop by her teacher, Fosco, the next day. To remind you, Samantha isn’t like other girls; she lives in a low-class apartment complex with creepy neighbours and if she wasn’t with the Bunnies out inhaling sprinkles, she would be eating stale bread with no jam. She isn’t like the other girls because other girls at Warren are rich and are able to sit by a bonfire on a Costa Rican shore; other girls get to pretend to be lost in their labyrinth of a garden; other girls have a place they can call home. Bully Hunter: Max thinks that he’s one because of what Samantha made him think when she "created" him. While, yes, they are horrible people, his “performance piece” is physical and psychological torture.

Max says he is working on a "performance piece" that Samantha would relate to. His piece? Physically torturing the Bunnies because Samantha was psychologically tortured by them.

Bunny

The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge Our narrator, Samantha, isn’t a bunny, much to her joy, and unconscious disdain. She even deliberately mentions it, because she is so happy that she isn’t part of that infantile clique:

Ava’s origin as a representation of the campus swan is hinted at right in the first chapter when Samantha mentions she yells at tourists and eats trash, which only birds can do. I stand here, I sway here, full of tepid sparkling and animal livers and whatever hard alcohol Ava keeps pouring from her Drink Me ask into my plastic cup. “What’s in this again?” I ask. A group of four privileged women who have it all – money, friends, and smarts; an unhappy, lonely scholar with an overactive imagination. Set in a prestigious New England MFA writing program with the coterie in the same group, what could go wrong? Where It Went Wrong Except Ava. She continues to smoke and stare at them like they’re a four‐headed beast. When at last I lower my hand, I turn to her. She’s looking at me like I’m something worse than a stranger.After being invited to another party, Samantha is surprised with the news that her high school crush, who is also invited is attending. After being dressed by Cupcake and Creepy Doll, she is prepped like a virgin bride.