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The Blanket Cats

The Blanket Cats

Shigematsu, Kiyoshi
Kirkwood, Jesse

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0593852699
ISBN13: 9780593852699
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: Feb 25 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.63 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
Utterly charming . . . I would read a hundred of these stories. --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures

Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a blanket cat . . . but only for three days, the time it'll take to change their lives.

A peculiar pet shop in Tokyo has been known to offer customers the unique opportunity to take home one of seven special cats, whose magic is never promised, but always received. But there are rules: these cats must be returned after three days. They must eat only the food supplied by the owner, and they must travel to their new homes with a distinctive blanket.

In The Blanket Cats, we meet seven customers, each of whom is hoping a temporary feline companion will help them escape a certain reality, including a couple struggling with infertility, a middle-aged woman on the run from the police, and two families in very different circumstances simply seeking joy.

But like all their kind, the blanket cats are mysterious creatures with unknowable agendas, who delight in confounding expectations. And perhaps what their hosts are looking for isn't really what they need. Three days may not be enough to change a life. But it might just change how you see it.

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