Book No. 24 of 2020
I’m still blowing my nose and wiping away tears from this one. It’s a very short and sweet read (my e-reader clocked my reading time for this at just over an hour) but it’s so very human and its quiet revelations about love and, yes, cats, brought me to tears.
(Waffling on whether this makes the cut as an “outstanding” book or not; I’ll sleep on it and update this accordingly.)
Similar Reads
Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police, for its similar themes about how things disappearing from the world reinforce our connections to people.
The eponymous short story from Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie, for heartfelt letters conveying a mother’s love.
The TV show The Good Place, for its themes on mortality and our connections to each other, as well as a tormenting-mentor-devil character who takes human form to dole out his particular form of torture.