The Canadian author monaawadauthor joins christobollen to discuss the deep entanglement of tragedy and comedy in her latest novel, 'All's Well.'
is considered one of the Bard’s “problem plays.” In it, an orphan girl named Helen, hopelessly infatuated with a handsome, disinterested count, proceeds to trick, swindle, and magically faith-heal her way into his heart. The “problem” with the play is that it’s so difficult to pledge allegiance to Helen as hero or villain, long-suffering victim or neurotic obsessive stalker. Helen is either trampled under fortune’s wheel, or the one rolling it over everyone who comes in her path.
BOLLEN: In a terrible twist of fate, I hurt my back right before I started reading your book. Your protagonist suffering debilitating back pain. How did this awful affliction work its way into her character? AWAD: I wondered it all the time. When you go through those treatments, there’s always that conclusion in their back pocket. There’s this progress narrative of, you go through this course of physical therapy and by the end of six to eight weeks, you are in a better place. But it usually doesn’t work like that unless it’s a very, very straightforward case and most people are not textbook. So the physical therapists start drawing upon the idea that pain is in the brain.
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