A review by _dunno_
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

4.0

I will root for Meena's book to win the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 for the sole reason of being the only one on the shortlist that I've managed to read. However, I loved it. I don't know how are the other shortlisted books, but When I Hit You is so contemporary, so 2018, so #metoo, etc. (and it almost doesn't read like a novel at all). It probably feels like we've been bombarded with too many of these feminine / feminist issues lately, but, like I said, it's 2018, plus domestic violence never gets old. This particular book raises some very good questions like: "how could he, an intellectual?" or "how could this happen to you, an accomplished woman, a feminist"? and Meena gives great answers to all of them. Let's not forget the writing, sharp and super-smart, my cuppa.