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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
4.0
This is a book that suffered from my overly high expectations. It was really fantastic, but I so badly wanted this to be the best book I'd ever read. It's just not a realistic expectation for any book, and I feel more negatively because of my own mindset.
The writing was gorgeous. There's a sparse brutality to it that really lends itself to the subject matter. Kandasamy is sometimes lyrical and gorgeous and sometimes abrupt and blunt, and it made the subject matter more powerful. You felt the brutality as a reader and it was wonderful.
I felt like this worked better as individual pieces rather than a whole. As essays, as concepts, so unbelievably gorgeous. But as a singular novel, I'm not sure it worked all that well.
I loved this and I wish I could go in with a fresh eyes and experience without my tainted mindset. I would highly recommend.
The writing was gorgeous. There's a sparse brutality to it that really lends itself to the subject matter. Kandasamy is sometimes lyrical and gorgeous and sometimes abrupt and blunt, and it made the subject matter more powerful. You felt the brutality as a reader and it was wonderful.
I felt like this worked better as individual pieces rather than a whole. As essays, as concepts, so unbelievably gorgeous. But as a singular novel, I'm not sure it worked all that well.
I loved this and I wish I could go in with a fresh eyes and experience without my tainted mindset. I would highly recommend.