{"product_id":"if-you-love-it-let-it-kill-you-9781250910271","title":"If You Love It, Let It Kill You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecommended Summer Reading according to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, Zibby Owens, and the \u003ci\u003eMinnesota Star Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A dishy work of autofiction that everyone will be talking about.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA refreshingly irreverent novel about art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the intricacies of the twenty-first-century female experience, from the acclaimed writer Hannah Pittard\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novelist 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 enjoyed is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteeped in the strangeness of contemporary life and suggestive of expansive metaphoric possibilities, \u003ci\u003eIf You Love It, Let It Kill You\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Pittard\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eListen to Me \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fates Will Find Their Way\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell fellow, and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky. She lives with her boyfriend and stepdaughter in Lexington. Much of her family lives nearby.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Henry Holt \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51454134812946,"sku":"9781250910271","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8433fba3-8ed4-45bb-9eb2-dea2b880340a.jpg?v=1751997222","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/if-you-love-it-let-it-kill-you-9781250910271","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}