Most people look for home in a place or a person. For Samantha Heather Mackey — the brilliant but depressed twenty-five-year-old who narrates Mona Awad’s Bunny — home is her imagination. Her mother is dead, and her father is a con artist who has been in hiding for years. To cope, she comes up with “horrific and fantastic”…
Alyanna Chua
Alyanna Chua is a writer and editor in Toronto.
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What compels a thirtysomething Canadian novelist to set her debut in a Florida community teeming with octogenarians? In Palm Meridian, Grace Flahive could be writing about her own precarious future. The year is 2067. The polar ice caps have melted and tropical storms batter the coast. The “sprawling Disney empire” is little more than barnacled…