Cat Person and Other Stories

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From the author of the global sensation Cat Person comes Cat Person and Other Stories, a compulsive short story collection about sex, dating and modern life that will thrill you before it chills you. 'It's a new literary genre... Supernatural horror meets bedroom politics' Sunday Times 'If you enjoyed Cat Person, this is for you' Evening Standard These are stories of women's lives now. They also happen to be horror stories. In some, women endure the horror. In others, they inflict it. Here are women at work, at home, on dates, at the doctor's, with their families and with their friends. Here are women grappling with desire, punishment, guilt and anger. These are stories to make you feel fascinated but repelled, scared but delighted, revolted but aroused. Previously published as You Know You Want This

Kristen Roupenian graduated from Barnard and holds a PhD in African Literature from Harvard. She is a Zell Fellow in the University of Michigan MFA program, and has received numerous awards for her work. She has studied with Laura Kasischke, Jeff Van der Meer and Claire Vaye Watkins. Her short story 'Cat Person' became a viral sensation when it was published by the New Yorker at the end of 2017, dubbed 'the most talked-about short story ever'. You Know You Want This is her first book.

I kept getting lured into another and another [of the stories]... [Kristen Roupenian has] one of those brains that feel out-of-this-world brilliant and also completely askew... What's special about Cat Person, and the rest of the stories in You Know You Want This is the author's expert control of language, character, story - her ability to write stories that feel told, and yet so unpretentious and accessible that we think they must be true. -- Lauren Holmes * New York Times * You Know You Want This at once enchants and horrifies... [Roupenian's] writing recalls the gloomy feminist fairy-tales of Angela Carter. This collection cements her reputation as one of the most startling new voices in fiction. * Economist * Roupenian is in possession of [a] formidable talent... the inner worlds of her narrators are always lifelike. She allows us to embody these characters wholly which is always an unsettling journey... [You Know You Want This] will leave you gasping. -- Sophie White * Irish Independent * It's only a matter of time before you find yourself thumping someone's dinner table vigorously as you discuss [You Know You Want This]... Roupenian's latest tales are sexy, chilling and disturbingly gruesome in finest fairytale tradition... Think Delta of Venus meets Angela Carter meets Bridesmaids. -- Harriet Walker * The Times * Wholly engrossing. -- Hayley Maitland * Vogue *