Friday, January 07, 2022

All’s Well (by Mona Awad)

I was pondering what tags to add to this one, I suppose we could call it magical realism? A theater professor with chronic pain is directing a production of All's Well That Ends Well, although her students want to do Macbeth. She runs into three strange men at a bar (in case you don't pick up the reference, they flat-out say "double, double toil and trouble" at one point) and strange things begin to happen. It's almost like she has... a power that she didn't have before.

I enjoyed the weirdness of the plot and the unreliability of the narrator as events begin to unfold.  It has this creeping dread as our narrator, Miranda (another Shakespeare reference of course) begins to spiral out of control.  Some reviewers didn't care for the ending but it really worked for me. Overall, big thumbs up!

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