You Know You Want This
Kristen Roupenian · 2019
The "Cat Person" author's full collection. Desire, power, and the violence of intimacy run through every page.
The case against
'Cat Person' is here, and it is still the best thing in the book by a wide margin. The other stories chase its discomfort with bigger and bigger shocks: bites, curses, a man summoned by spell and kept for cutting. Engineered transgression has a smell, and most of this collection has it. You come for one famous story; the rest is escalation.
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