{"product_id":"if-you-love-it-let-it-kill-you-hannah-pittard-hardcover","title":"If You Love It, Let It Kill You -- Hannah Pittard, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA refreshingly irreverent novel about art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the intricacies of the twenty-first-century female experience, by the acclaimed writer Hannah Pittard\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDivorced and childless by choice, Hana P. has built a cozy life in Lexington, Kentucky, teaching at the university, living with her boyfriend (a fellow academic) and helping raise his pre-teen daughter. Her sister's sprawling family lives just across the street, and their long-divorced, deeply complicated parents have also recently moved to town. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne day, Hana 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, a visit to the dean's office, a shadowy figure from the past, a Greek chorus of indignant students whose primary complaints concern Hana's autofictional narrative, and a game called Dead Body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteeped in the subtleties and strangeness of contemporary life, \u003ci\u003e If You Love It, Let It Kill You\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression for readers of Miranda July's\u003ci\u003e All Fours\u003c\/i\u003e and Sigrid Nunez's \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hannah Pittard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Holt \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250910271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hannah Pittard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46502288621796,"sku":"9781250910271","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781250910271.jpg?v=1752954346","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/if-you-love-it-let-it-kill-you-hannah-pittard-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}