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A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex — and often darkly funny — connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. Previously published as You Know You Want This, “Cat Person” and Other Stories brilliantly explore the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. “If you think you know what this collection will be like, you’re wrong. These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.” - Carmen Maria MachadoAmong its pages is a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex...until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” 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 topics—from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural—these are stories about sex and

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Author

Kristen Roupenian

Publisher

jonathan cape uk

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787331105

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.1 / 5 (766 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14