ABSTRACT

Amy Sohn's Run Catch Kiss, like Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City, maps out new narratives of desire that can be read as signaling a shift away from the primacy of romantic closure in traditional romances. In these sexcolumn-turned-novels, the heroines often demonstrate a greater concern for getting sexual kicks than for getting hitched. But even within this shared central focus, the two novels reveal fundamental differences: Run Catch Kiss is about the pursuit of sexual liberation through pleasure whereas Sex and the City is about the pursuit of sexual liberation through power.