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From the acclaimed author of Bunny comes a gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death leads her on a perilous quest for youth and beauty. Belle has long been obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. After her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle returns to Southern California to confront her mother’s substantial debts and unresolved questions surrounding her death. The situation intensifies when a mysterious woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about Noelle's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. Drawn by a pair of red shoes, Belle enters La Maison de Meduse, the lavish, cult-like spa her mother frequented. There, she uncovers the terrifying truth behind her obsession with the mirror and the dark depths that lie beyond its surface. This surreal journey blends elements of Snow White and Eyes Wide Shut, delving into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complex bond between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, the narrative critiques the beauty industry's cult-like nature and the dangers of internalizing its relentless gaze, reflecting on mortality and our fixation with appearances.

The breath-taking new novel from the author of Bunny.

Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That's when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda's past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what's coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that's kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described as "no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius," Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All's Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.[Bokinfo]

'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOOD. We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny. Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'. But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole. Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny is a spellbinding trip of a novel from one of fiction's most original new voices. 'A brilliant, utterly unique peek into the dark side of female friendship' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. 'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition' LENA DUNHAM. 'Hilarious and subversive, magical and knife-sharp' LAURA VAN DEN BERG. 'Cerebral and compulsively readable' VANITY FAIR. 'Enchanting and stunningly bizarre' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.