“This novel echoes the author’s own experience of domestic violence, becoming a record of survival and self-preservation by focusing not on the husband’s confession of why he hits her, but on the wife’s impression of how it hurts. Our reviewer, Sanam Maher, calls it an ‘urgent, searing … rebuke to those who think privilege, financial or educational, protects against harm. Her characters are never named, their anonymity allowing the reader to slip easily into their skins’.”
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