From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as âgenius,â comes a âwild, and exhilaratingâ (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeareâs most maligned play will remedy all that ails herâbut at what cost?
Miranda Fitchâs 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, sheâs on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeareâs Allâs 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.
Thatâs when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Mirandaâs past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whatâs coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain thatâs kept her from the spotlight is made known.
With prose Margaret Atwood has described as âno punches pulled, no hilarities dodgedâŠgenius,â Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. Allâs Well is a âfabulous novelâ (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.