Kristen Roupenian

Cat Person and Other Stories
- Kristen Roupenian
Previously published as You Know You Want This

'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.

RELEASED 06/02/2020

You Know You Want This

Kristen Roupenian

Cat Person

Kristen Roupenian

Quicksand

Junichiro Tanizaki

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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.