When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

By: Meena Kandasamy

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Synopsis: The widely acclaimed novel of an abused woman in India and her fight for freedom: &“A triumph.&” —The GuardianNamed a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the ObserverShortlisted for the Women&’s Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the Jhalak Prize Based on the author&’s own experience, When I Hit You follows the narrator as she falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Soon, the newlywed experiences extreme violence at her husband&’s hands and finds herself socially isolated. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance, in a harrowing yet fierce and funny novel that not only examines one woman&’s battle against terror and loneliness but reminds us how fiction and stories can help us escape.