{"product_id":"if-you-love-it-let-it-kill-you","title":"If You Love It, Let It Kill You","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":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483537711477,"sku":"9781250910257","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781250910257.jpg?v=1786178713","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/if-you-love-it-let-it-kill-you","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}