All's Well: A Novel

From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as genius, comes a wild, and exhilarating (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeares most maligned play will remedy all that ails herbut at what cost? Miranda Fitchs 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, shes on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeares Alls 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. Thats when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Mirandas past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whats coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain thats kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described as no punches pulled, no hilarities dodgedgenius, Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. Alls Well is a fabulous novel (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.