Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends
Part diva, part purring furball, cats always keep you wondering. Are they happy to see you? Mad at the world? Cats are subtle little comics, rubbing against your legs when you'd forgotten they were in the room, purring in your ear in the middle of the night. What is it about these sly, droll, and unpredictable creatures that captivates us? And what's the deal with the whole crazy cat lady stereotype, anyway?\ From a tale about how rescuing a stray cat ended up saving a friendship to an...
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Part diva, part purring furball, cats always keep you wondering. Are they happy to see you? Mad at the world? Cats are subtle little comics, rubbing against your legs when you'd forgotten they were in the room, purring in your ear in the middle of the night. What is it about these sly, droll, and unpredictable creatures that captivates us? And what's the deal with the whole crazy cat lady stereotype, anyway? From a tale about how rescuing a stray cat ended up saving a friendship to an unapologetic piece by a confirmed — and proud! — crazy cat lady, the essays in Cat Women range from thought-provoking and heartrending to laugh-out-loud funny, all delving into the many ways these often aloof little divas touch our lives. Publishers Weekly McMorris (Women's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives) collects 29 well-crafted and enjoyable short essays that often focus on how the writer's cat (or cats) has affected her love life both for better and worse. Kristen Kemp relates how she collected cats to get the affection her boyfriend wasn't giving her. Editor McMorris describes how, after a rough start, when her six-year-old tabby peed on her boyfriend's clothes, he gradually learned to enjoy the cat. A sadder story is told by Susan Schulz Wuornos, evoking the death of her pet just one week before her wedding. The majority of the selections emphasize the individuality and independence of cats, who make certain that their owners know precisely what they want. Erin Torneo stresses that felines are not people pleasers: "They won't plunge into a relationship without careful consideration," And they always have an escape route, lessons she applied to her own relationships. This collection will appeal to all those (especially women) already seduced by the enigmatic feline. (May)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
Note from the Editor: We're Cat Ladies, So Sue Us Megan McMorris 7The Cat That Got Away Sophia Dembling 13Admitting Maynard Jenna Schnver 17Hang with Scrappy T (and Other Rules of the Cat-Show Road) Dimity McDowell 21Making the Cat Laugh: One Woman's Journal of Single Life on the Margins Lynne Truss 33Strutting the Catwalk: Seven Habits of One Sexy Beast Jennifer Jalalat 37Waiting for Fat Annie to Die. Not Really. Well, Sorta Barrie Gillies 43Life with an Indian Street Cat Sue Dickman 49The Cat from Oz Kathryn Renner 59Call Me Crazy...My Life as a Cat Lady Lisa L. Goldstein 67A Muse in Training Carol Driscoll 85Lessons Learned from a Blind Cat Linda Kay Hardie 89Hold Me! Touch Me! Love Me! (a.k.a. the Story of Sophie) Heather Gowen Walsh 95The Neighborhood Watch Group Judy Sutton Taylor 105Love Triangle Erin Torneo 111Cat Call Suz Redfearn 117Home Free Susan T. Lennon 129The Feline-Female Connection Clea Simon 135L.A. Gossip: Tall Tales of a Wild Cat in the City Valerie Cabrera Krause 141Saved by the Cat Melinda J. Combs 147An Ode to the Murph Dawg Susan Schulz Wuornos 157Cat Trap Fever Margaret Littman 167Country Cat vs. City Cat Amy Fishbein Brightfield 175True Confessions: I Was a Reluctant Cat Owner Lisa Guernsey 183Little Black Cat Sarah Shey 189Planet Catnip: My Life with an Alien Cat Leah A. Zeldes 197Our Relationship Went to the Cats Kristen Kemp 203You Can't Change a Tiger's Stripes Tracy Teare 209Kittens Think of Murder All Day Michele Mortimer 213On a Scale of One to Ten Megan McMorris 247
\ Publishers WeeklyMcMorris (Women's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives) collects 29 well-crafted and enjoyable short essays that often focus on how the writer's cat (or cats) has affected her love life—both for better and worse. Kristen Kemp relates how she collected cats to get the affection her boyfriend wasn't giving her. Editor McMorris describes how, after a rough start, when her six-year-old tabby peed on her boyfriend's clothes, he gradually learned to enjoy the cat. A sadder story is told by Susan Schulz Wuornos, evoking the death of her pet just one week before her wedding. The majority of the selections emphasize the individuality and independence of cats, who make certain that their owners know precisely what they want. Erin Torneo stresses that felines are not people pleasers: "They won't plunge into a relationship without careful consideration," And they always have an escape route, lessons she applied to her own relationships. This collection will appeal to all those (especially women) already seduced by the enigmatic feline. (May)\ Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information\ \
