AnNPRbest book of the year
Recommended Summer Reading according toThe New York Times,Elle, Zibby Owens, and theMinnesota Star Tribune
A dishy work of autofiction that everyone will be talking about.
The New York Times
A refreshingly irreverent novel about art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the intricacies of the twenty-first-century female experience, from the acclaimed writer Hannah Pittard
A novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominentlyand soonin her ex-husbands debut novel. For a week, her life continues largely unaffected by the newsshe cooks, runs, teaches, entertainsbut the morning after baking mac n cheese from scratch for her nephews sixth birthday, she wakes up changed. The contentment shes long enjoyed is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body.
Steeped in the strangeness of contemporary life and suggestive of expansive metaphoric possibilities,If You Love It, Let It Kill Youis a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression.
Hannah Pittardis the author of the novels
Listen to Meand
The Fates Will Find Their Way. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell fellow, and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky. She lives with her boyfriend and stepdaughter in Lexington. Much of her family lives nearby.
AnNPRbest book of the year
Recommended Summer Reading according toThe New York Times,Elle, Zibby Owens,Town and Country, andtheMinnesota Star Tribune
ALit HubMost Anticipated Book of the Year
A Goodreads Most Popular Book of July
One ofVultures Best Divorce Books
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