If You Love It, Let It Kill You

Author:	Pittard, Hannah
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9781250910271
Publisher:	Henry Holt & Company
Language:	English
Page Count:	284
Publication Date:	7/15/2025
Size:	9.50" l x 6.50" w x 1.13"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Fiction	Literary
Fiction	Humorous

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

Divorced and childless by choice, Hana P——has built a cozy life in Lexington, Kentucky, teaching at the flagship university, living with a fellow academic, and helping him raise his preteen daughter. Her sister’s sprawling family lives just across the street, and their long-divorced, deeply complicated parents have also recently moved to town.

One day, Hana 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, a visit to the dean’s office, a shadowy figure from the past, a Greek chorus of indignant students whose primary complaints concern Hana’s auto-fictional narrative, and a game called Dead Body.

Steeped in the subtleties and strangeness of contemporary life, If You Love It, Let It Kill You is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression for readers of Miranda July’s All Fours and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend.