MORNINGS WITH MY CAT MII

Gentle meditative Cat lovers prepare to weep THE TIMES Book of the MonthIt was the end of summer 1977 I found a cat a little ball of fluff A teeny tiny baby kitten A beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime For the last twenty years Japanese readers have been falling in love with Mayumi Inaba s story of life with her cat Mii after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo We follow their everyday joys through the seasons as Mayumi develops her career as a writer and finds her feet in life with her small feline always at her side Mornings With My Cat Mii lovingly chronicles Mayumi and Mii s unshakeable twenty year bond meditating on solitude companionship the writing life and how we care for our cats as they grow older Translated into English for the first time by world renowned translator Ginny Tapley Takemori this beloved Japanese modern classic is a celebration of how a cat can change our lives forever Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Readers ADORE Mornings with My Cat Mii I cried Books rarely make me cry but this one was absolutely beautiful regardless It made me reflect on grief and love and how to love is to