When I Hit You New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2004) and presents a whole new

and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided

and gentle humor

his haunted eyes and his thin features are strange to other people

Describes how male and female lions live

When I Hit You New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2004) and presents a whole newSeduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife, but what for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic and writer in the process, she attempts to push back a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape. Smart, fierce and courageous