All's Well

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AWAD: Oh yeah. Absolutely. I mean it’s certainly her experience and my experience too. I was so afraid of being a bad patient. I was so afraid of betraying any kind of anxiety because I knew that if I did, the solution would be, “Oh well,” you know, some anti-anxiety pill or some meditation, or something like that. Miranda often finds her story being undermined by the fact that she is a woman. People don’t believe her. Listen to Shakespeare Unlimited on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, NPR One, or wherever you find your podcasts.

After an accident left Miranda Fitch with a crippling injury and chronic pain, her husband, Paul, left her, and she had to give up her dream of being a stage actress. Now, physically and emotionally broken, she teaches theatre at a local college, watching young actresses live the life she once thought she’d have. Through it all though, Miranda is desperate to have her class perform “All’s Well That Ends Well”, the Shakespeare play that she fell in love with when she performed the lead role years ago. But, unknowingly, “All’s Well” will change Miranda’s life in unbelievable ways.

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Thank you so much to the publisher, Simon & Schuster, for providing me with a copy to read and review. I appreciate the opportunity to share my opinions. I look at the three men waiting for me to answer. ‘Run,’ I tell myself. Drive home drunk. Die there alone in your dark room.

I wanted to extend the world of the stage across the world of the book. That was really exciting to me because then that meant that anything was possible, you know? And in this story, a lot of impossible things happen. A lot of miracles occur and so I had to set the stage for that. And that’s how I did it, by just bringing in the supernatural. I don't quite know what I expected from this; well, okay, this was one of those rare cases where I did read most of the blurb before requesting. So I expected the summary. Which does sound good. And yes, I had heard some strange and varied things about Bunny, the author's previous release, and thought, of the two, this might be more my speed to test the waters on a new-to-me author. I have had Bunny on my to-read list since it came out, and now that I’ve read this, I will be making sure to get around to it sooner rather than later. Awad has a unique, compelling voice and her writing feels both refreshing and haunting. The next time I’m in the mood for a fever dream of a book, I know exactly where to turn. And when I say fever dream, I really mean it. This is a weird book. You've been warned.Awad moved to Mississauga, Ontario, when she was 13. [7] [1] There, she attended Father Michael Goetz Secondary School. [8] Awad studied English literature at York University, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the university in 2004. She went on to earn a masters in English at the University of Edinburgh, an MFA at Brown University, [1] and a PhD at the University of Denver. [9] Work [ edit ] Listen to more authors on Shakespeare Unlimited,including Mark Haddon, Julie Schumacher, and Edward St. Aubyn. There'll be another glass after that. And another, and another. All these glasses that will never be clean. All these spots that will never out.

Miranda Fitch is a Theater Professor at a small New England college. Due to chronic pain stemming from the accident that ended her once promising acting career, Miranda isn't currently in a good spot emotionally.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. Your video will play after ad, it reads in a small box in the bottom corner of the screen. No choice. No choice then but to lie here and listen to how there is hope thanks to Eradica. The one pill I didn’t try, because the side effects scared me more than the pain. No choice but to watch the bad actress bicycle in the idyllic afternoon of the drug commercial with a blandly handsome man who I presume is her fake husband. He is dressed in a reassuring plaid. He reminds me of the male torso on the Brawny paper towels I buy out of wilted lust. Also of my ex-husband, Paul. Except that this man is smiling at his fake wife. Not shaking his head. Not saying, Miranda, I’m at a loss.

AWAD: He’s so wrong and he’s so conflicted about her and I just love that portrayal of a teacher. It’s so complicated because on the surface he’s a wonderful teacher and everybody loves him, but he has these dark feelings. And they do inform his actions. Teachers are just human, right? I’ll warn you, at first I didn’t see any humor in the story. Miranda made me cringe more than laugh. For everyone who has an ailment that isn’t visible to the naked eye, it will ring true. Dr. Awad has taught creative writing at Brown University, the University of Denver, Framingham State University, Tufts and in the MFA program at U-Mass-Amherst. She was interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. Then another voice follows. Decisive. Brisk. But there is love in there somewhere, or so I tell myself. After hitting an all time low on the floor of a sleazy bar...Miranda's life suddenly turns around. What happened in the bar??? Ummm good question...🤔things got really weird....I am not hallucinating..you are!! 🤔😂😳Good thing I like weird!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? BOGAEV: And you read the passage earlier, but Miranda also puts it this way that it’s neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it’s something in between. Another favourite of the year! Mona Awad had me entranced with this one! If this isn’t the most deliciously dark read ever, I don’t know what is. BOGAEV: We should just remind people that Helen loves this nobleman, Bertram, who has no interest in her whatsoever. She cures the king; Bertram is his ward and in return, the king says, “Bertram, you have to marry this woman,” and he goes nuts and creates—it’s a fairy tale really. Miranda Fitch is a domineering theatre professor whose acting days were cut short by injury. Determined to put on a production of All's Well that Ends Well – the very play that she was injured in – despite her students' insistence on performing Macbeth, Miranda attracts the attention of three shadowy, Shakespearean-witch-esque men that grant her the ability to transfer her pain to others. But in true Shakespearean witch fashion, supernatural gifts are not always what they seem. The farther Miranda pushes with the production, the more that euphoria and madness bleed together.