Description
From the acclaimed author of Bunny, this darkly humorous novel features a theater professor plagued by chronic pain who, while staging a troubled production of Shakespeare’s most criticized play, miraculously finds recovery. Miranda Fitch’s existence feels like a nightmare, with chronic back pain from an accident, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers threatening her job. Determined to produce All’s Well That Ends Well, she faces a rebellious cast wanting to perform Macbeth instead. Just as Miranda’s chance for redemption slips away, she meets three mysterious benefactors who know her past and promise a future where her pain is acknowledged. With prose that Margaret Atwood praises as “genius,” Mona Awad presents her most potent, subversive tale yet—about a woman’s breaking point and society’s refusal to acknowledge female suffering.