Death by a Thousand Cuts

Stories

Author  Shashi Bhat
Death by a Thousand Cuts

Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year • An Apple Canada Best Ebooks of 2024 • A CBC Books' Best Canadian Fiction of 2024

A breathtaking and sharply funny collection about the everyday trials and impossible expectations that come with being a woman, from the Governor General’s Literary Award-shortlisted author of The Most Precious Substance on Earth.

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…