Poets Square A Memoir in Thirty Cats
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Sprache:Englisch
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15251
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
08.05.2025
Verlag
Penguin Books LtdSeitenzahl
241
Maße (L/B/H)
22,2/14,3/2,9 cm
Gewicht
366 g
Farbe
Lichtgrau
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-241-65074-5
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
People kept asking: Why would you have cats that don't love you back?
The morning after Courtney Gustafson moved into an old house in the Poets Square neighbourhood of Tucson, Arizona, she noticed tiny pawprints all over her driveway. They were the first evidence of a colony of feral cats who would, in time, become part of her family and help pierce a personal darkness she'd wrestled with for much of her life.
Beebs was the first cat to appear, allowing herself to be petted in the driveway. And then came so many others. There was Monkey, the hissing, dark-blotched calico, and Reverse Monkey, her timid, white-blotched opposite. There were Sad Boy and Lola, the inseparable pair who made their way across the internet and into strangers' wedding vows. There was the sweet, serene Dr. Big Butt, who brought lessons about grief. And there was Goldie, the tiny king of Poets Square: sick, skinny, but completely unafraid. These cats - and many, many others - would expand her world spectacularly.
Poets Square is a love letter to community in a broken society, told through the cats Courtney meets in dark alleys, neglected homes and her own driveway; cats she cherishes and must sometimes let go. Above all, she explores what her encounters with feral cats can teach us about care, connectedness and the power
of hope.
'Cats are mystical beings, bridging the spiritual and the tangible. Courtney Gustafson's Poet Square is a book that helps us connect to this spiritual world, offering a bridge to the ethereal' Ai Weiwei
'Courtney Gustafson writes with uncommon grace about the castoff, the abandoned, the invisible. This book should be read and treasured for its ability to make the reader more human and humane' Lauren Slater, author of Blue Dreams
'Deftly intertwined with the individual stories of all these cats is her own story of how she got there ... She is clear-eyed about the deviation of her life' Esther Walker, The Spike
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A beautiful and profound memoir. I didn't know the author before reading this, but that didn't stop me from enjoying it. Courtney Gustafson has a poetic and honest way of writing. Each chapter is dedicated to a cat and simultaneously tells her story and the one of the cat. She shows how much we can learn from animals while also touching on social issues, how the struggles of animals and humans are often connected.
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