num_pages: 225
description: A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complexand often darkly funnyconnections 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 sexuntil they cant 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 hearts 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.Spanning a range of genres and topicsfrom the mundane to the murderous and supernaturalthese are stories about sex and punishment guilt and anger the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel revolt and arouse scare and delight in equal measure. And as a collection they point a finger at you daring you to feel uncomfortableor worse understoodas if to say You want this right? You know you want this.Bad boy --Look at your game girl --Sardines --The night runner --The mirror the bucket and the old thigh bone --Cat person --The good guy --The boy in the pool --Scarred --The matchbox sign --Death wish --Biter --Acknowledgments
language: English
title: You Know You Want This
publisher: Gallery/Scout Press