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Lionplaces
Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Gallant
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a small apartment in coastal Tunisia, a cat named Loki watches the world through iron bars while the city breathes around her - prayer calls at dusk, storms rolling in from the sea, stray cats moving across sun-warmed walls, and a human woman trying to hold together a life that keeps threatening to come apart.
When Loki gives birth to four kittens, the room becomes a kingdom unto itself. Gentle Jasper. Fearless Carrot. Sleepy Jojo. And Winnie, the smallest of them all, who survives by a thread and grows into a strange, watchful creature with an uncanny sense for love, grief, and the invisible bonds between living things.
As the seasons shift and the fragile routines of the household begin to change, the cats learn the shape of devotion: the rituals of survival, the ache of leaving, the comfort of returning, and the ways love continues even inside walls, oceans, and impossible choices.
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