I’ll be processing this one for awhile. The pacing was great, literary images of pain and grief were powerful and unique, and the dialogue was perfect. The book challenges reader’s expectations of narrators and also their own personal limitations of empathy and sympathy, at least, it certainly did for me. Other reviewers have critiqued the main character, Miranda, as unlikable and insufferable. And isn’t that the point the author is making? Awad pushes the narrative of “women’s pain” a little bit further with “All’s Well” and highlights the extremes some people face when they are facing inconclusive and unhelpful answers to torment.

3.5 bumped up to 4 for the really poetic metaphors and descriptions of feeling and suffering.