You know you want this

Roupenian, Kristen (1982-....). Auteur

Edité par Jonathan Cape - 2019

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. "You Know You Want This" 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.

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