You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories

You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories

â€œWhatâ€™s special about â€˜Cat Person,â€™ and the rest of the stories in You Know You Want This, is the authorâ€™s expert control of language, character, storyâ€”her ability to write stories that feel told, and yet so unpretentious and accessible that we think they must be true.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œKristen Roupenian isnâ€™t just an uncannily great writer, she also knows things about the human psycheâ€”things that I always supposed I would learn at some point, but never did. Some of these things are about menâ€™s minds in particular and Iâ€™m pretty sure sheâ€™s right. The world has made a lot more sense since reading this book.â€ â€”Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man

â€œIf you think you know what this collection will be like, youâ€™re wrong. These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.â€ â€”Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award Finalist and author of Her Body and Other Parties

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complexâ€”and often darkly funnyâ€”connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.

You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sexâ€¦until they canâ€™t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for â€œsomething meanâ€; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heartâ€™s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed â€œbiterâ€ who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker.

Spanning a range of genres and topicsâ€”from the mundane to the murderous and supernaturalâ€”these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortableâ€”or worse, understoodâ€”as if to say, â€œYou want this, right? You know you want this.â€
Country USA
Brand Gallery/Scout Press
Manufacturer Gallery/Scout Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-01-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781982101633

Country	USA
Brand	Gallery/Scout Press
Manufacturer	Gallery/Scout Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-01-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781982101633

You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories

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