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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Cat Person and Other Stories

Cat Person and Other Stories

Roupenian, Kristen

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1982101644
ISBN13: 9781982101640
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Published: Apr 14 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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 Her Body and Other Parties A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex--and often darkly funny--connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. Includes the story Cat Person--now a major film.Previously published as You Know You Want This, 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 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 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.

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