If You Love It, Let It Kill You
  • Published:
    Jul-2025 (Hardcover)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    304
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Recommended Summer Reading according to The New York Times, Elle, Zibby Owens, and the Minnesota Star Tribune

“A dishy work of autofiction that everyone will be talking about.”
-- The New York Times

A refreshingly irreverent novel about art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the intricacies of the twenty-first-century female experience, from the acclaimed writer Hannah Pittard

A 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.

Steeped in the strangeness of contemporary life and suggestive of expansive metaphoric possibilities, If You Love It, Let It Kill You is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression.
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People / Creatures
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    • First Edition
    • Jul-2025
    • Henry Holt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1250910277
    • ISBN13: 9781250910271
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    • Jul-2025
    • Henry Holt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1250910269
    • ISBN13: 9781250910264
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    • Jul-2025
    • Henry Holt and Co.
    • eBook (Kindle)



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