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Review: When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy. In an interview with Wired India, Meena Kandasamy is asked why she chose marital violence as the topic for her novel When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. She responds: “ pursuing an intellectual life, especially writing, is impossible to do when you are stuck in the middle of everyday abuse because you are battling for mere survival; Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · When a woman falls in love with a university professor and moves with him to a rainy coastal town, she finds out that for him, love is a property contract. H.  · by Meena Kandasamy ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma A novel about contemporary Indian intellectuals highlights an age-old problem. The unnamed protagonist escaped from her abusive husband five years ago when this powerful novel opens, so the suspense is not whether she'll survive but whether she'll be allowed to tell her own story.

Review: When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Artist by a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy (Atlantic Books, ) In an interview with Wired India, Meena Kandasamy is asked why she chose marital violence as the topic for her novel When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. She responds: " pursuing an intellectual life, especially writing, is impossible to do when you are. When I Hit You. Foreword's Lit Hit—Indie Books That'll Blow You Away. Powerful and poignant, Meena Kandasamy's When I Hit You follows a young wife as wedded bliss transforms to a waking nightmare. An unnamed narrator believes her life is off to an enviable start when she marries a progressive university professor, but cracks quickly appear in his mild-mannered facade. This story is a book about unbreakable resolve and the narrator's fight to reclaim her identity in the face of devastating circumstances.

Kandasamy has written about her own marriage for the Indian magazine Outlook in ; now, using an unnamed narrator speaking in an urgent, first-person voice, When I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of. When a woman falls in love with a university professor and moves with him to a rainy coastal town, she finds out that for him, love is a property contract. H. When I Hit You’s unnamed narrator gives a staggering account of psychological manipulation and marital abuse. The book’s patchwork structure is frenetic yet elegiac. The subject matter is distressing but approachable. Above all, Kandasamy's sharp voice and her arresting linguistic style are bread and wine for the soul.