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A magnetic, stirring debut novel about an adrift young woman whose growing fascination with her boyfriends cat ushers her into the possibilities of her own lifebut not without first threatening to unravel it.
Katie is far from home and fresh out of college, desperate to skirt adulthoods demands, and all too willing to let her wealthy boyfriend James make decisions for them both. It doesnt help that shes no longer speaking to her mother. Or that her roommate has abruptly moved out of their New York City apartment. But when James takes Katie on vacation to his familys seaside house, he brings Silver, his childhood cat, and Katie discovers a sudden, strange, and giddy sense of connection.
Silver doesnt mind that Katie cant seem to get a job, hold her own at dinner parties, or make amends with her mother. Silver, who gets to lie around all day, misbehave spectacularly, be cute, gross, and still get fed, seems to have the life Katie increasingly longs for. Soon enough, theyre inseparable, and something inside Katie begins to crack open, or maybe justcrack.
Because if Katie has learned anything from her estranged mother, its that devotion comes at a price. As Katies affection for Silver deepens, all of her other relationships begin to falter. Soon, Katie must confront what it is she desires from her life, and what she might have to risk to get it.
Both darkly playful and unexpectedly heartfelt, this debut from a major new voice in fiction is a timeless reckoning with the uncertainty of becoming a person in a world that is as disorienting as it is full of hope and promise.
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