Recent Reading: Cat Person and Other Stories
Roupenian's stories are provocative and provoke strong emotions in the reader. They are all about unpleasant experiences with dating and sex as well as sadomasochism. I found them bleak and joyless. The stories were female focused. However, if feminism is about the importance of kindness and empathy toward women and girls, these are not feminist stories. They just seemed mean spirited. I feel like I read these stories so you don't have to.
