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IF YOU LOVE IT, LET IT KILL YOU
By: Hannah Pittard
Henry Holt and Co.
July 2025
On Sale: July 15, 2025
304 pages
ISBN: 1250910277
EAN: 9781250910271
Kindle: B0D8TNLMPN
Hardcover / e-Book
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Humor | Fiction Family Life
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 prominently—and soon—in her ex-husband’s debut. 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 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 You is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression.
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