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Stacey Yu's debut novel tackles obsession, class, arrested development and cats

“There are so many books out there with an unreliable narrator who is struggling to be a person. I wanted to write a novel that confronted that malaise, but didn’t limit itself to it.”
Stacey Yu © Anne Yu
Stacey Yu © Anne Yu
Stacey Yu’s bold literary debut, Kitten, explores a young woman’s escalating obsession with her boyfriend’s cat.

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