CAT LOVE

CAT LOVE takes place in a near-future dystopia in which empathy has essentially been both weaponized and monetized. At the heart of the story is our beloved narrator, a calico cat who has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a box. While students of the Emotional Statistics Course contemplate the fate of the cat (if it's even really in the box, they wonder) and evaluate their emotional reaction to it, the cat's spirit travels to discover what has happened to the people who put her in this predicament. Along the way we hear of the cat's previous lives and explore the relationships that are formed and broken along the way. With dashes of poetry and multiple-choice questions, CAT LOVE is an exceptional tale told through a poet's lyrical lens. Tomás Q. Morín is the author of several books, including the memoir Let Me Count the Ways (Nebraska, 2022), winner of the 2022 Writers' League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award; the poetry collections Machete, A Larger Country, and Patient Zero; and other books. He is on the faculty at Rice University. https://www.tomasqmorin.com