You Know You Want This
Author: Kristen Roupenian
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 t….Read More
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