‘Lobster dinner’, by Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman (1986) is an American author and writer. She published her first novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine in 2015. She has a short story collection, Intimations, published in 2016. Kleeman received an MFA from Columbia University in 2012. She teaches at Columbia and has written for The New Yorker, Paris Review, Harper’s, Vogue, Zoetrope, New York Times Magazine, and n+1, among others.