All's Well

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From the author of the critically acclaimed TikTok sensationBunny

"A dazzling wild ride of a novel daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical.Mona Awad isapowerfuland poeticstoryteller, telling us something new and profoundhereaboutthe connection betweensufferingandelation. When I was away from this book, I longed to get back to it."George Saunders,New York Timesbestselling, Booker Prize-winning author ofLincoln in the Bardo

"Wildand exhilarating and so fresh it takes yourbreath away,All's Wellis an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny, and our own subtle moral failures when we brush up againstthe pain of others. Mona Awad's talent is so vital that it absolutely roars out of her. "Lauren Groff,New York Timesbestselling author ofFates and Furies

"Tragic, macabre, and wicked. I laughed out loud the whole way through. One of the funniest books Ive read in years." Heather O'Neill, author ofThe Lonely Hearts Hotel

"Really funny ... The satirical targets, all brilliantly hit, include useless physios, entitled students, internet advertising and for all you romantics out there love!" Wendy Holden in theDaily Mail

Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award

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 ShakespearesAlls Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on stagingMacbethinstead. 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 dodged...genius, Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet.Alls Wellis 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.

Author Bio

Mona Awad is the author of Alls Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Bunny was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award and the New England Book Award. It was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film by Jenni Konner and New Regency Productions. Alls Well was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award. 13 Ways won the Amazon Best First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Awad currently teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. She is based in Boston.