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The Goodbye Cat

by Hiro Arikawa
Philip Gabriel
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In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven cats weave their way through their owners’ lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa.
Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a popular holiday island show a young boy not to stand in nature’s way; a family is perplexed by their cat’s undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat will not stop visiting her at night; and an elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other’s lives forever.
Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life, from birth to death—as each of the seven stories explores how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down. A huge bestseller in Japan, this magical book is a joyous celebration of the wondrousness of cats and why we choose to share our lives with them.

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    October 10, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9780593815717

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      • ISBN: 9780593815717
      • File size: 37346 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      September 1, 2023
      This quiet, poignant collection of short stories examines the unique bonds between beloved felines and their owners. The touching title story centers on a young cat who longs to become immortal so he can stay with his family forever. In "Bringing Up Baby," a new father learns how to care for his child by raising a kitten, while "Cat Island" explores a place where hundreds of cats live, which has a mysterious connection to the narrator's father and stepmother. Readers who enjoyed Arikawa's novel The Traveling Cat Chronicles (2018) will be delighted to see Nana and Satoru make appearances in several of the stories here, although one need not have read that novel to appreciate this volume. While this is an obvious recommendation for cat lovers, it will likely please readers who appreciate gentle, moving stories about the cyclical nature of life and death. For fans of The Cat Who Saved Books (2019), by S�suke Natsukawa, Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse (2019), and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

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