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When I Hit You

2020-03-17 Fiction
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Release : 2020-03-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 009/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When I Hit You by : Meena Kandasamy

Download or read book When I Hit You written by Meena Kandasamy. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widely acclaimed novel of an abused woman in India and her fight for freedom: “A triumph.” —The Guardian Named a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Observer Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize Based on the author’s own experience, When I Hit You follows the narrator as she falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Soon, the newlywed experiences extreme violence at her husband’s hands and finds herself socially isolated. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance, in a harrowing yet fierce and funny novel that not only examines one woman’s battle against terror and loneliness but reminds us how fiction and stories can help us escape.

When I Hit You

2017-05-04 Fiction
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Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 273/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When I Hit You by : Meena Kandasamy

Download or read book When I Hit You written by Meena Kandasamy. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 Guardian's Best Books of 2017 Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017 Observer Best Books of 2017 Financial Times Best Books of 2017 "Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You"- Guardian 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.

When I Hit the Road

2020-05-05 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2020-05-05
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 263/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When I Hit the Road by : Nancy J. Cavanaugh

Download or read book When I Hit the Road written by Nancy J. Cavanaugh. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet comes an uplifting, hilarious, illustrated middle grade story about a girl on a madcap road trip. Told in journal entries, When I Hit the Road explores making unexpected friends, multigenerational relationships, and finding out that maybe journaling your adventures isn't so bad after all. Samantha is not exactly excited to spend her entire summer vacation in Florida with her grandma. Or to have to write to her future self in the journal her mom insists she use. But it turns out that Gram has some not-so-boring plans up her sleeve... Gram and her friend Mimi are going to audition for the Seniors Have Got Talent Karaoke Contest! A road trip in Gram's new Mustang turns into a series of hilarious mishaps that flip Samantha's summer on its head, especially because, an unexpected person is sharing the ride: a super cute, muscular, athletic-looking, dimple-faced, middle-school boy named Brandon. It looks like her journal might be worth keeping after all because this summer will be one Samantha will never want to forget. Follow along with Sam, Gram, Mimi and Brandon in all their road trip shenanigans, including: A GIANT alligator and the grossest swamp mud you'll ever see The safe-haven Glory Bound Baptist Church (and cat burglar) The hilarious (and terrifying) Kooky Karaoke Contest The Friendly Fill-up Gas Station (and the Restroom of Horror) And more Perfect for summer reading, middle school girls, and students grades 3rd to 8th that want a fun, lighthearted read!

The Gypsy Goddess

2014-04-03 Fiction
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Release : 2014-04-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Gypsy Goddess by : Meena Kandasamy

Download or read book The Gypsy Goddess written by Meena Kandasamy. This book was released on 2014-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provocative debut by the Women's Fiction Prize 2018-shortlisted author of When I Hit You. When women take to protest, there is no looking back. Sometimes it is over working conditions, other times, perhaps, a strike for higher wages. And so, in a hungry, back-broken community of villages in Tamil Nadu, a group of rural workers begin to defy their landlords. The landlords, in turn, vow to violently crush them. But these punishments only serve to strengthen the villagers' resistance - after all, when starvation is the only option, what else is there to lose...?

If He Had Been with Me

2013-04-02 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2013-04-02
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 849/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis If He Had Been with Me by : Laura Nowlin

Download or read book If He Had Been with Me written by Laura Nowlin. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

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