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Violence
Some
Horror-adjacent violence and disturbing events as the Faustian bargain unfolds
Language
Some
Some strong language in a dark-comedy register
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Some
Prescription drug overuse as a way of managing chronic pain; a central theme
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Chronic pain as a psychological state that distorts reality; the horror of not being believed; artistic obsession at the breaking point
What this book is about
Miranda Fitch is a theater professor at a New England college who has been in chronic pain for years — a back injury that has derailed her acting career and her marriage and her life. She is staging a production of All's Well That Ends Well that no one wants, and she is barely surviving. Then she meets three mysterious figures who seem to understand her pain in ways no one else has — and offer her relief in exchange for something. Mona Awad's novel is a dark, funny, hallucinatory fairy tale about chronic illness, artistic obsession, and what you would give to be whole again.
Notes for sensitive readers
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chronic pain and prescription drug overuse depicted
psychological horror and reality distortion
Faustian bargain with dark consequences
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