The following items are available at Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road. For more information on the library’s collection or to reserve a title, visit hcplibrary.org.
Adult Fiction
“Bunny” by Mona Awad
Samantha Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most other human company, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort: a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But that all changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled "Smut Salon" and finds herself at their front door, ditching Ava, her only friend, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, she begins to take part in their ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure monstrous creations. As the edges of reality begin to blur, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are headed for a collision.
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Adult Nonfiction
“Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing” by Elissa Altman
After surviving a traumatic childhood and young adulthood in the shadow of Rita, her flamboyant, makeup-addicted, former television singer mother, Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life a state away with her wife of nearly 20 years. After much time, therapy and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the stable, independent world she has built as a writer and editor. Then Elissa is confronted with the unthinkable: Rita, whose days are spent traversing Manhattan from the Clinique counters at Bergdorf to Bloomingdale’s and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall, leaving her completely dependent upon her daughter. Now Elissa is forced to confront their differences, Rita’s yearning for beauty and glamour, her view of the world through her days in the spotlight, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of preserving youth. To sustain their fragile mother-daughter bond, Elissa must navigate the turbulent waters of their shared lives, the practical challenges of caregiving for someone who refuses to accept it, the tentacles of narcissism, and the mutual, frenetic obsession that has defined their relationship.
