{"product_id":"9781250910257","title":"If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel","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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A dishy work of autofiction that everyone will be talking about.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43330699558973,"sku":"9781250910257","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250910257_p0.jpg?v=1783515682","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781250910257","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}