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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
by Courtney Gustafson
I meant to read this book over the course of the whole weekend, but once I started it this morning I just could not stop. This book is a real dark horse. I expected to be mildly entertained by cat antics and to learn a good bit about caring for strays along the way. This book certainly fulfills that premise but it's so much more than that.
Gustafson is incredibly open and insightful about the myriad struggles in her life, and especially how it feels to exist as a woman (and grow up as a girl) in a society that continually prioritizes men's desires over a woman's simple existence or even her basic safety. Gustafson touches on a lot of very difficult experiences, and manages to be so insightful about what must have been the worst times in her life. I'm amazed she was able to not only expose her heart like this, but that she could so clearly get to the core of some of the most complicated or humiliating parts of being a person. I loved every minute of this book and kept having to stop to make notes. I'm really looking forward to see what she writes next.
Gustafson is incredibly open and insightful about the myriad struggles in her life, and especially how it feels to exist as a woman (and grow up as a girl) in a society that continually prioritizes men's desires over a woman's simple existence or even her basic safety. Gustafson touches on a lot of very difficult experiences, and manages to be so insightful about what must have been the worst times in her life. I'm amazed she was able to not only expose her heart like this, but that she could so clearly get to the core of some of the most complicated or humiliating parts of being a person. I loved every minute of this book and kept having to stop to make notes. I'm really looking forward to see what she writes next.