Miranda Fitch is a college professor and a brilliant actress in the past. Her career was destroyed by an accident: she literally fell off the stage. And now her back hurts. Miranda’s life consists of working at a dying faculty of the performing arts and fighting her dependence on painkillers. Still, she wants to stage with her students the most ambiguous Shakespeare play, “All’s Well That Ends Well.” But not everyone is fond of this idea. That’s how our journey through Miranda’s distorted world begins—woven from chronic pain and misunderstanding.
Mona Awad’s range of allusions stretches from Shakespearean plays to Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and John Updike’s “The Witches of Eastwick,” combining witty satire, dark humor, and magical realism.