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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
From the author of Bunny (genius(Margaret Atwood)), comes a dazzling and darkly funny novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare's most maligned play will remedy all that ails her--but at what cost?A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2021 SELECTED BY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * VULTURE * LITHUB * REFINERY29 * GOODREADS * POPSUGAR * NOW MAGAZINE * BOSTON * AND MOREA dazzling wild ride of a novel--daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical. --GEORGE SAUNDERSWild and exhilarating and so fresh it takes your breath away. --LAUREN GROFFOh my lord what a fabulous novel--knocked me out --MARY KARRMiranda Fitch's 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 she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater 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 hellbent 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 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.
“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.”