Though the events of the novel are increasingly absurd and often confusing, even maddening, everything moved forward with purpose towards some essential shimmering mirage at the center of Miranda’s spiral. The tapestry of Miranda’s mind and her descent into obsession is so intricately, painstakingly woven by Awad.

She touched me more than most of the other “unlikeable female protagonists” currently floating around the literary sphere, mainly because she is driven by far more than just a vague sense of malaise.

Miranda Fitch is not a very pleasant person, she is totally wrapped up in her own issues with almost no thought for anyone else, she is quite possibly losing her absolute mind- and I adore her. It branches away from the teen girl/young adult female friendships that defined those previous books, and focuses almost entirely on the inner life of main character Miranda Fitch. Prior to this, I had read 13 Ways of Looking at A Fat Girl and Bunny, and All’s Well felt like a natural development. Mona Awad is a brilliant author whose work has only improved with every novel she has released. There's not much else I can say without giving too much away but I absolutely loved this wild novel. I loved this book is told completely from the mind of Miranda giving us a front row seat into the pill addled, paranoid, and often delusional thoughts she's experiencing making her the best unreliable narrator. Just when Miranda thinks life has finally brought her to her breaking point, she meets 3 mysterious benefactors and that's when the real fever dream begins.

The only good thing Miranda seemingly has in her life is the upcoming production of Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well but even that dream goes up in smoke when her students try and undermine her by convincing the school board to let them do Macbeth. Her doctors treat her like an experiment rather than a human, her colleagues and students pity her. Her marriage fell apart as a side effect of this pain and she is now teaching theater at a local college. All's Well follows main character Miranda Fitch who is a former budding actress who's career failed short following a stage accident which has left her in chronic pain which doctors seem to be unable to help relieve. I read Bunny earlier this year and after finishing All's Well, I think it's safe to say Mona Awad is a new auto-buy author for me.

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