Death by a Thousand Cuts

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Shashi Bhat

#7958 of 8,085 books · #3068 in Fiction

Longlisted for the Giller Prize (2024).

Death by a Thousand Cuts was longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize and was named one of Apple Canada's Best Ebooks of 2024 and CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024. What would have happened if she'd met him at a different time in her life, when she was older, more confident, less lonely, and less afraid? She wonders not whether they would have stayed together, but whether she would have known to stay away. A writer discovers that her ex has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love, only to have her body betray her. After her boyfriend makes an insensitive comment, a college student finds an experimental procedure that promises to turn her brown eyes blue. A Reddit post about a man's habit of grabbing his girlfriend's breasts prompts a shocking confession. An unsettling second date leads to the testing of boundaries. And when a woman begins to lose her hair, she embarks on an increasingly nightmarish search for answers. With honesty, tenderness, and a skewering wit, these stories boldly wrestle with rage, longing, illness, and bodily autonomy, and their inescapable impacts on a woman's relationships with others and with herself.