02444cam a2200361 i 4500 2613487320 TxAuBib 20251104120000.0 240819s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024037716 9781250910271 hardcover $28.99 1250910277 hardcover $28.99 (OCoLC)1452442000 TxAuBib rda Pittard, Hannah., author. If You Love it, Let it Kill You. First edition. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025. ©2025. 284 pages : illustration ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Divorced and childless by choice, Hana P.-the metafictional version-has built a cozy life in Lexington, Kentucky, teaching at the flagship university, living with a fellow academic, and helping raise his pre-teen daughter. Her sister's sprawling family lives just across the street, and their long-divorced, deeply complicated parents have also newly 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 been enjoying is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous mid-life crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat, a visit to the dean's office, a shadowy figure from the past, a Greek-like chorus of indignant students whose primary complaints concern Hana's auto-fictional narrative, and a game called Dead Body. Playing with 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20251104. Midlife crisis Fiction. Women novelists Fiction. Women college teachers Fiction. Memory Fiction. Lexington (Ky.) Fiction. Humorous fiction. lcgft TXMLR