"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

January 1, 1970

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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’” in The Guardian (2019 Nov 25)