“Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. Something the Bard would’ve been proud of.” - SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE “A mystical journey complete with spectral benefactors, mysterious curses and limitless magic. “Thrilling…Awad has taken Shakespeare’s premise of illness and spiritual rebirth and turned it into an inventive horror-comedy full of altered realities and uncanny weirdness.” - THE SEATTLE TIMES 'Imagine Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter traipsing through the dreamy creepiness of fairy tales while giving Shakespeare tips on female narratives.' - THE TORONTO STAR 'A darkly hilarious journey into the psyche of a woman approaching her breaking point.' - TIME 'A stealthily captivating new novel that, like its namesake, skews more dark than light as it casts its spell.' - THE BOSTON GLOBE “A surreal exploration of chronic pain, women’s believability and visibility, and desperation that straddles the line between comedy and horror.” - NPR It's incandescent.' - THE WASHINGTON POST

'Awad's writing isn't merely intoxicating. “Awad is a dark genius, preternaturally gifted at creating vicious, hilarious tales about the depravity inside us.A wicked mash-up about opioid addiction, Bard nerds, Faustian deals, and a cursed play? Yes, please.” - VULTURE A dream of a novel, perfect for a midsummer night’s read.” - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

All’s 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. With prose Margaret Atwood has described as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged…genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. 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. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.

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. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. 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 Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her-but at what cost?

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