num_pages: 249
description: Seduced by politics poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him 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. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of an obedient wife bullying her and devouring her ambition of being a writer in the process she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.At once the chronicle of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art When I Hit You is a smart fierce and courageous take on traditional wedlock in modern India.
language: English
title: When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
publisher: Atlantic Books