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The San Francisco Misfits: A Tale of Fur, Fog, and Family
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Series: The San Francisco Misfits, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
All translations are confidential and probably wrong.
In a tilted Painted Lady on one of San Francisco's most punishing inclines, a well-meaning but oblivious family cohabits with four secretly articulate animals - and a five-year-old translator whose linguistic accuracy hovers somewhere between catastrophic and legally actionable.
Guido, a chocolate poodle of three years and considerable opinions, has appointed himself Generalissimo of the household. Daze, an elder Scottish Fold, has fallen in love with the fog and named him Gerald. Lull, the family Zen master, conducts diplomacy with coyotes on Twin Peaks. And Rusty, the world-weary ginger tabby across the street, watches it all from a picket fence - chronicling the days as the family slowly, against every reasonable forecast, becomes home.
Across twelve chapters - from a sourdough catastrophe and a cable-car insurrection, to a press conference for The Collected Barks of Guido, to a Halloween where Guido goes viral as a Sad Lawyer - comes a warm, witty, Wodehousian comedy about settling in, growing up, and the small gentle truths only children and animals know.
For readers of E.B. White, P.G. Wodehouse, and anyone who has ever suspected their cat had opinions about the curtains.
Season One. Twelve chapters. Twenty illustrations. One hundred and thirty-two pages of fur, fog, and family.
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