Cat Person

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. 'It is rare for a work of fiction to spark such a flurry of excitement, but Cat Person touches a nerve and manages to depict how it feels to be a young woman now.' - Financial Times  You Know You Want This, Kristen Roupenian's debut collection, will be published in February 2019.