All's Well

When I attempt to sum up my understanding of this book, it feels a little something like this...


It was advertised as dark comedy. Was it dark? Yeah. Was there comedy involved? Yeah x2. Only I didn't find it entirely funny, and Awad's writing style was more painful to get through than quirky. I'm all for mixing it up, reading author's with a little extra quirk to their writing style, but this one missed the mark for me. So....see the gif above, because that's all I'm left with. Not for me.

“We all fall, Ms. Fitch. We fall and we rise. Bones and tissue heal. But sometimes we want to hold on to the pain. Sometimes we have our reasons for not being able to let go.”

“She is always there, always ready, always on time, like only the truly mediocre are.”

–from the author's interview in the back of the book–

“And that act of performing inherently causes you to second-guess yourself, which is so scary: the pain is a reality that you're living but because of the performance element of sharing it, your reality immediately becomes suspect.”

“I found there was a lot of pressure to be a good patient and to conform to some sort of progress narrative that my therapist or surgeon might have.”