A Year of Cats and Dogs
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Maryanne has reached middle age, and the world around her seems crowded with loss. Death appears to press in from every side, and she begins to wonder whether a life can carry meaning when so little visibly happens in it. Rather than wait for an answer, she sets out to test the question by living through a single year with close attention to what is around her.
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The novel is sharp and often wry in its observations, yet it keeps returning to the possibility of hope. It follows one woman's search for purpose in ordinary days.
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