Sleight of Hand: On Meena Kandasamy’s “When I Hit You” and “Exquisite Cadavers”
Stephanie Sy-Quia looks at two recent novels from Meena Kandasamy, “When I Hit You” and “Exquisite Cadavers.”
Stephanie Sy-Quia is a freelance critic and writer based in London. Her writing has appeared in The FT Weekend Magazine, The Spectator, Monocle, The i, and others. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head essay prize. She is a Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic.
Stephanie Sy-Quia looks at two recent novels from Meena Kandasamy, “When I Hit You” and “Exquisite Cadavers.”
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