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Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol
Moderate: Death
Minor: Car accident
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Dysphoria
Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical trauma
Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Medical content, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence
This book confirmed my suspicion that Mona Awad will be an auto-buy author for me. Awad has indeed made it to my list of favorite authors because I have an affinity for the peculiar.
Articulating my thoughts on Awad's books is always a challenge, despite the excellence of her prose and storytelling. Rating All's Well was difficult as I found the ending slightly underwhelming. I sought more rage and a more unhinged narrative.
While I rate Bunny higher (I wish I could read that book for the first time again), All's Well is still a good read. It's just so frustrating for me to still not know what Miranda's, the main character of All's Well, mental health issue is, unlike in Bunny when it was clearly schizophrenia. However, maybe I'm overanalyzing and All's Well is merely about the dismissal of women's pain coupled with misogyny, even from women themselves.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Sexual content
Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Infertility, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting
Moderate: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma
Her stream-of-consciousness first-person writing is impeccable and pulls you through Miranda's story wonderfully. You go from pitying her to hating her to questioning her to fearing her to being scared for her, and through all of it you're left wondering what in the world could happen next. Awad does an incredible job of weaving Shakespearean nods throughout the characters and the plot seamlessly and it was really fascinating to see how she used that in her craft.
This also does a wonderful job of highlighting what it is to live with chronic pain with the need to be a "good patient" and how anger and fear can get involved. All in all, I'd call this a perfect book club pick or definitely one to add to your list if you like a story that keeps you guessing at every turn.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical trauma
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Addiction
Graphic: Chronic illness
Moderate: Sexual content