From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as тАЬgenius,тАЭ comes a тАЬwild, and exhilaratingтАЭ (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging ShakespeareтАЩs most maligned play will remedy all that ails herтАФbut at what cost?
Miranda FitchтАЩs 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, sheтАЩs on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on ShakespeareтАЩs AllтАЩs 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.
ThatтАЩs when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of MirandaтАЩs past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whatтАЩs coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain thatтАЩs kept her from the spotlight is made known.
With prose Margaret Atwood has described as тАЬno punches pulled, no hilarities dodgedтАжgenius,тАЭ Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. AllтАЩs Well is a тАЬfabulous novelтАЭ (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.