by Danica Gim
From Danica Gim — Dutch poet and illustrator with 245,000 Instagram followers, whose Art Nouveau and ancient black-figure-influenced illustrations of women and their worlds have been reposted by Britney Spears, Dove Cameron, and Doutzen Kroes, and whose woman-centered illustrated poetry is credited with inspiring a new wave of illustration style across social media.
This is a 224-page square-format illustrated book — 7.5 × 7.5 inches, built for display as much as reading — in which a cat speaks. Not metaphorically. In voice: deadpan, occasionally imperious, frequently funnier than expected, and somehow exactly right. The cat offers encouragement when you need it, commentary on your questionable decisions, and the particular variety of wisdom that only a creature who sleeps seventeen hours a day and judges the rest can offer.
But underneath the humor — and this is what makes the book something more than a charming cat-owner gift — is something genuinely tender. The book acknowledges that our
