“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. I doubt if I'll read a better book this year.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? This wonderful novel, by the author of Deacon King Kong, is as notable for its smart and stylish prose as it is for its ability to enfold the reader into a warm and enveloping story. When she provides a refuge for a deaf Black boy being hunted by white authorities, it sets off a chain of events that threatens the tenuous racial accord and changes Chicken Hill forever. The store never made a dime, but the goodwill that Chona extended to everyone who walked through the door was beyond price. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store was the hub of the district and Chona Ludlow was its heart. If coexistence was not always harmonious, it frequently displayed a resigned desire on the part of the inhabitants to make the best of it. It was the name given to a section of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where immigrant Jewish and African American people lived side by side. It isn't as if Chicken Hill has seen better days.

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