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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson
5.0
emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
I loved this book so, so much. For starters, I've never seen any description so accurate of how it feels to love a weird little furry monster so dearly that you feel like it's walking round with your heart held hostage as it tries to get into every dangerous situation it can find. And to then multiply that feeling to all the hurt and lost and lonely cats in the world.

But it's not just a story of the colony of cats the author found when she moved into a new house, or how it led to working to look after feral cats across the city. It's about learning to find and build community, to get out of survival mode and come out of the cold. To witness suffering, grief, loss, and brokenness in both feral cats and the (usually poor) communities they live in and to keep showing up. It shows how the humans around feral cats need care too, and both have been abandoned by society.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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