LOST CAT

'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning book-length essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir. Lost Cat begins with t he story of how Gaitskill rescued a stray cat in Italy and brought him to live with her in the US, where he went missing.As she expl ores the unexpected trauma of her loss, Gaitskill describes how she came to foster two siblings, Caesar and Natalia, two inner-city children w...[Llegir més]