{"product_id":"cat-person-and-other-stories-9781982101640","title":"Cat Person and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIncludes the story \"\u003ci\u003eCat Person\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003enow a major film* \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex--and often darkly funny--connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.\" --Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award Finalist and author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Kristen Roupenian isn't just an uncannily great writer, she also \u003ci\u003eknows things\u003c\/i\u003e about the human psyche...The world has made a lot more sense since reading this book.\" --Miranda July, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreviously published as \u003ci\u003eYou Know You Want This\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Cat Person\" and Other Stories 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 \u003ci\u003ehearing\u003c\/i\u003e them have sex, then \u003ci\u003eseeing\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Spanning a range of genres and topics--from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural--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 uncomfortable--or worse, understood--as if to say, \"You want this, right? You know you want this.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoupenian, Kristen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kristen Roupenian holds a PhD in English from Harvard, an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, and a BA from Barnard College. She is the author of the short story, \"Cat Person,\" which was published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and selected by Sheila Heti for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018\u003c\/i\u003e. She is at work on a novel. Follow her on Instagram @KRoupenian.","brand":"Gallery\/Scout Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635270127890,"sku":"9781982101640","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a883706-284d-486d-8f32-327e8da304ff.jpg?v=1732839321","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cat-person-and-other-stories-9781982101640","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}