A magnetic novel about a young woman who falls in love with her boyfriend's cat.
Katie is far from home and fresh out of college in New York, desperate to skirt adulthoods demands, all too willing to let her wealthy boyfriend make decisions for both of them. But when James takes her on vacation to his familys house by the sea, he brings Silver, his childhood cat, and the calculus of care changes. Rocked by class dysphoria in the face of the towns quietly insistent superiority and drifting from James, Katie finds giddy comfort in Silver, who has life figured out. Soon enough, theyre inseparable, and something inside Katie begins to crack open, or maybe just...crack. It doesnt help that back in New York, her roommate has abruptly moved out. Or that shes no longer speaking to her mother, who resents her for leaving Little Rock. As the days pass and her uncomfortable awareness of her dependence on James grows, Katie becomes increasingly enamored of Silver, who looks out for her in mysterious ways.But when her fixation deepens and the stakes of her relationships intensify to the point of detonation, Katie must confront the demands and desires of her life: the one she comes from, the one she longs for, and the one she has.
