A review by farfetched
The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

This is the first book I've read in a while. It took me while to get into it, and it's been sitting on my bedside table for several months bc I got halfway and stopped bc my brain wasn't co-operating. But I say down and finished it today, and I really enjoyed it. It's suffused with a melancholy evitable of a pre-apocalyptic story, and consistently asks how you go on living and what you do when the end of the world is coming and nothing can really be done about that. It's about morning and grief, not just for people in the past, but for lost futures. My siblings recently moved across the world, so I related to Aisha's situation in a weird kind of way, that anger and not being able to vent it. It's a quiet kind of book, but I will be thinking about it for a long while. A few less cats than I expected, but Fleabag made up for it in character.