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TitleIf you love it, let it kill you : a novel / Hannah Pittard.
AuthorPittard, Hannah, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrrCqrBTGR8MMf3M8DyVC
Call NoFic Hannah
CollectionFiction
Shelf LocationNew
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Call NoDownloadURLHTMLCirc StatusLibraryCollectionShelf LocationPeriodical IssueVolumeBarcodePub Year
Fic Hannah ProcessingCCBCFictionNew   2025

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781250910264
International Standard Book Number 9781250910271
International Standard Book Number 1250910277
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6
Personal Name Pittard, Hannah, author.
Title Statement If you love it, let it kill you : a novel / Hannah Pittard.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint ?20
Imprint New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025.
Physical Description 284 pages ; 25
Summary, Etc. "A refreshingly irreverent novel about art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the intricacies of the 21st century female experience, by the acclaimed novelist Hannah Pittard Divorced and childless by choice, Hana P.-the metafictional version-has built a cozy life in Lexington, Kentucky, teaching at the flagship university, living with a fellow academic, and helping raise his pre-teen daughter. Her sister's sprawling family lives just across the street, and their long-divorced, deeply complicated parents have also newly moved to town. One day, Hana learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently-and soon-in her ex-husband's debut novel. For a week, her life continues largely unaffected by the news-she cooks, runs, teaches, entertains-but the morning after baking mac 'n' cheese from scratch for her nephew's sixth birthday, she wakes up changed. The contentment she's long been enjoying is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous mid-life crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat, a visit to the dean's office, a shadowy figure from the past, a Greek-like chorus of indignant students whose primary complaints concern Hana's auto-fictional narrative, and a game called Dead Body. Playing with the subtleties and strangeness of contemporary life, If You Love It, Let It Kill You is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression for readers of Miranda July's All Fours and Sigrid Nunez's The Friend"-- Provided by publishe
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Index Term-Genre/Form Humorous fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.
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