In Conversation: On All’s Well: A Novel

Cary Barbor is a writer, editor, and radio producer. She has contributed to such magazines as New York, Salon, and More, and has produced radio stories for NPR’s Here and Now and The Pulse, and WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show. She has published short stories in Natural Bridge and Full Circle Journal. Her story We Don’t Wear Shoes in the Ashram was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has also published personal essays in Backpacker and AMC Outdoors magazines.

Mona Awad is the author of Bunny: A Novel and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She has published work in The New York Times Magazine, Time, VICE, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Miranda Fitch, the protagonist of Awad’s latest book, All’s Well: A Novel (Simon & Schuster), is in all kinds of pain – physical, emotional, you name it. The accident that ended her acting career also left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past – and a promise for her future. O, The Oprah Magazine called it a “sparkling valentine to the Bard. A dream of a novel, perfect for a midsummer night’s read.”