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01805aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 34FE5C408C3A11EAB4A2F82B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200502010016 008 190929t20202017nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1609455991 020 $a 9781609455996 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1121084145 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UAP $d IH9 $d IW5 $d SILO 043 $a a-ii--- 100 1 $a Kandasamy, Meena, $e author. 245 10 $a When I hit you : $b or, a portrait of the writer as a young wife / $c Meena Kandasamy. 260 $a New York : $b Europa Editions, $c 2020. 300 $a 210 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "First US Publication 2020 by Europa Editions"--Title page verso. 520 $a "Set in modern India, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Based on the author's own experience of marriage, soon the newly-wed experiences extreme violence at her husband's hands and finds herself socially isolated. Intellectual and physical cruelty is explored. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance and, as the subtitle suggests, the novel is also about the act of writing itself and the way that fiction and stories can help you escape" -- $c Amazon.com 650 0 $a Married people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Spousal abuse $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family violence $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Authorship $v Fiction. 651 0 $a India $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011631.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20210302015309.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200618010048.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200502010247.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=34FE5C408C3A11EAB4A2F82B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search