Cat person

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Sinopse

She thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person who’d just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing.Margot meets Robert. They exchange numbers. They text, flirt and eventually have sex – the type of sex you attempt to forget. How could one date go so wrong? Everything that takes place in Cat Person happens to countless people every day. But Cat Person is not an everyday story. In less than a week, Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker debut became the most read and shared short story in their website’s history. This is the bad date that went viral. This is the conversation we’re all having.This gift edition contains photographs by celebrated photographer Elinor Carucci, who was commissioned by the New Yorker to capture the image that accompanied Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person when it appeared in the magazine.You Know You Want This, Kristen Roupenian’s debut collection, will be published in February 2019.

Participantes

Autor: Kristen Roupenian

Autor

KRISTEN ROUPENIAN

Kristen Roupenian (Plymouth — Estados Unidos, 1981) é autora de Cat person e outros contos (2019). O livro surgiu a partir da publicação e viralização do conto “Cat person” no site da revista New Yorker, e teve os direitos vendidos para uma adaptação para TV pelo canal HBO. A escritora é PhD em literatura africana, em Harvard, com pesquisa sobre questões pós-coloniais. Em 2003, mudou-se para o Quênia, onde passou dois anos trabalhando com o Corpo da Paz, ensinando saúde pública. De volta aos Estados Unidos, já trabalhou como professora assistente, caixa de livraria, repórter freelancer, babá e coordenadora de pesquisa em um hospital.