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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
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Courtney didn’t set out to become a “cat lady” — but she’s found meaning and purpose in doing so. Here she shares the tragedies and triumphs of her years tending to the unexpected strays in her own yard and spreading her love and care to the feral cats of Tucson. This is a moving and deeply personal memoir about answering the call to help the helpless.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken—and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral cats.
AN NPR AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn’t know that the property came with thirty feral cats. Focused only on her own survival—in a new relationship, d...
AN NPR AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn’t know that the property came with thirty feral cats. Focused only on her own survival—in a new relationship, d...
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