From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as โgenius,โ comes a โwild, and exhilaratingโ (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeareโs most maligned play will remedy all that ails herโbut at what cost?
Miranda Fitchโs life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, sheโs on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeareโs Allโs Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
Thatโs when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Mirandaโs past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whatโs coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain thatโs kept her from the spotlight is made known.
With prose Margaret Atwood has described as โno punches pulled, no hilarities dodgedโฆgenius,โ Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. Allโs Well is a โfabulous novelโ (Mary Karr) about a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.