A nameless narrator observes the world from which he is about to depart. Lying on the edge of the sidewalk, he is alone and cold. At first, his contemplation of the world around him suggests that he is human, but our narrator is soon revealed to be a cat, abandoned inside a cardboard box. With his mother gone, the cat’s only company is the rhythmic sound of the train, which he believes to be the heartbeat of the world. In its final moments of life, the cat has a fateful encounter: a young human woman, peering down at him with an umbrella in her hand.

So begins the first story of She and Her Cat, a book composed of four interrelated stories. Written in a tender stream of consciousness, each story is alternately narrated by a cat and its female owner. While the four women in the book explore the frailty of life and the limits of communication, their feline companions lead lives governed by instinct and nature. Told in a whimsical prose, the book explores the magic hidden in the most quotidian detail of our life, and reminds us that, in our most lonesome moments, we are still connected to the wonder of the world.