“A memoir for me means a person’s life story; if I was going to write my actual life story, I would condense this entire marriage into a footnote.”

— Meena Kandasamy

On her book When I Hit You in “Meena Kandasamy: ‘If I was going to write my life story, I would condense that marriage to a footnote’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/meena-kandasamy-interview-exquisite-cadavers in The Guardian (2019 Nov 25)

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