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The way the author writes about women really ruins what is a fun series. Other than the occasional paragraph where the author insists on describing female characters breasts touching Grant on his shoulder (grow up, are you a teenager?) and the really ...more "
“This One True Love—which flourished for two, three years—left me wounded. I spent months scooped in bed, howling my heart out. In learning to forget him, I had to pick up what was left of me, the little fragments of individuality [...] like broken bangles, chipped glass, colourful pebbles. [...] This was a lover who had become the landscape. Everything in Kerala reminded me of him.”
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
“What you went through is horrible. I'm not disputing it.'
'Okay. So?'
'Just that this man whom you depicted—it was like he was a monster. The sum total of all the evil things in the world.'
'No, I never said that.'
'But that's how it came across.'
'That's not what I intended. It was his violence. That's all.'
Here's a friend asking me if there was nothing redeemable about my ex-husband. I do not know how to justify myself. What do I tell people like him, who want a balanced picture, who want to know that this was a real person with a rainbow side, just so that they are reminded of their own humanity?
I realize that this is the curse of victimhood, to feel compelled to lend an appropriate colour of goodness to their abuser.”
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
'Okay. So?'
'Just that this man whom you depicted—it was like he was a monster. The sum total of all the evil things in the world.'
'No, I never said that.'
'But that's how it came across.'
'That's not what I intended. It was his violence. That's all.'
Here's a friend asking me if there was nothing redeemable about my ex-husband. I do not know how to justify myself. What do I tell people like him, who want a balanced picture, who want to know that this was a real person with a rainbow side, just so that they are reminded of their own humanity?
I realize that this is the curse of victimhood, to feel compelled to lend an appropriate colour of goodness to their abuser.”
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
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