2017 · Literary Fiction, Feminist FictionWhen I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Following a whirlwind courtship, an outspoken young Indian writer moves to coastal Mangalore with her university professor husband, only to be subjected to escalating emotional manipulation, surveillance, and marital violence. Clinging to her craft as a clandestine lifeline of resistance, she deconstructs the mechanisms of patriarchal abuse and reclaims her artistic agency through language.
