Ebook {Epub PDF} When I Hit You: Or A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

When I Hit You is the familiar tale of a young woman who falls for and marries a man who turns out to be someone completely different once they are in the marital home. Behind closed doors, her husband turns into a control freak, a coward and a bully. Meena Kandasmy writes a realistic and wholly believable account of this abusive relationship/5().  · Kandasamy has written about her own marriage for the Indian magazine Outlook in ; now, using an unnamed narrator speaking in an urgent, first-person voice, When I Author: Preti Taneja. Emotionally reeling despite its brevity, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife is a personal and deeply political story of surviving marital abuse and of a deeply flawed society, a poetic treatise on strength, desire, ideological blindness, and trauma/5.

When I Hit You, or, The Portrait of The Writer as a Young Wife, Meena Kandasamy, Juggernaut. Support our journalism by contributing to Scroll Ground Reporting Fund. We welcome your comments at. Thank you to Storgy Magazine for providing a review copy. Buy When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy here. About the author. Meena Kandasamy (born ) is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy ISBN ISBN Hardcover; London: Atlantic Books, ; ISBN

Portrait of the Writer. As A Young Wife. By Meena Kandasamy. Published by Atlantic Books, Reviewed by Grace Gageby (first published in Socialist Alternative, magazine of the Socialist Party) When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as A Young Wife, Meena Kandasamy’s second novel, has been described as both a searing account of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art. Author: Meena Kandasamy. Publisher: Juggernaut. Publication Date: 26 May Language: English. Country: India. Pages: Rating: 5/5 “Don’t let people remove you from your own story.” The experience of domestic violence is a universal thing. Every woman has undergone abuse of some sort, and When I Hit You is a searing account of it. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. Meena Kandasamy. Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, a young woman falls in love with a university professor. Marrying him and moving to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a contract of ownership.