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Staff Reviews
I love a good Shakespeare retelling and this book has two! Mona Awad has a gift of writing the surreal which blends so well with reinterpreting Shakespearean works. I love the take of dark academia from a teacher’s perspective rather than the students. This book is a dark delight. It also is an aamzing allegory for women’s pain and how people try to dismiss it and the women themselves .
— Amber
Both a comedy and a tragedy like it's inspirations: Shakespeare's *All's Well That Ends Well* and his *Macbeth*, you're met with deceit, unlikable characters, fierce ambition & it's consequences but in the most entertaining way.
for anyone who likes classic Elizabethan theatre in a modern setting, this one's for you!
— Asia
August 2021 Indie Next List
“Gloriously bananas, dark and weird, and so, so good. All’s Well is a big, messy, strange journey about chronic pain, Shakespeare, friendship, mental health, witchcraft, and work.”
— Rachel Barry, WORD Bookstores, Brooklyn, NY
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER *FINALIST FOR A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST HORROR* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN AWARD*"Dear Readers: This is one wild book . . . No holds barred." --Margaret Atwood via Twitter "Mind-blowing. Equal parts brilliant and hilarious." --Heather O'Neill, bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little Criminals From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering chronic pain who, in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeare's most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers. Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised--and cost--her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That's when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda's past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what's coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that's kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described via Twitter as "no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged . . . genius," Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All's Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.
About the Author
Mona Awad is the author of Bunny, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It is currently optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. Awad's debut, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her most recent novel, All's Well, was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror.
“Gloriously bananas, dark and weird, and so, so good. All’s Well is a big, messy, strange journey about chronic pain, Shakespeare, friendship, mental health, witchcraft, and work.”