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"Old Mother, Little Cat" is a highly readable memoir of Gerber's mother's decline in health and how their relationship grew during this time, blended in with Gerber's finding a kitten and her developing relationship with Max (the name she gives the kitten).

About the Author :
Merrill Joan Gerber is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Among her novels are "The Kingdom of Brooklyn," winner of the Ribalow Award from "Hadassah Magazine "for "the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme," "Anna in the Afterlife," chosen by the "Los Angeles Times" as a "Best Novel of 2002" and"King of the World," which won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award. She has written five volumes of short stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in "The New Yorker," "The Atlantic," "Mademoiselle," "The Sewanee Review," "The Virginia Review," "Commentary," "Salmagundi," "The American Scholar," "The Southwest Review," and elsewhere. Her story "I Don't Believe This" won an O. Henry Prize. "This Is a Voice from Your Past" was included in "The Best American Mystery Stories." Her non-fiction books include a travel memoir, "Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence"; a book of personal essays, "Gut Feelings: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions"; and "Old Mother, Little Cat: A Writer's Reflections on Her Kitten, Her Aged Mother . . . and Life." Gerber earned her BA in English from the University of Florida, her MA in English from Brandeis University, and was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship to Stanford University. She presently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

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"In this well-written and touching memoir, Gerber, a short-story writer and novelist ("The Kingdom of Brooklyn") details her mother's agonizing decline in a nursing home. Although her mind is clear, Gerber's mother is fed through a tube, rarely gets out of bed and repeatedly tells her daughter how much she longs for death. After she adopts an abandoned kitten that she calls Maxie, Gerber's depression over her mother's illness lifts. She finds caring for her new pet therapeutic and takes delight in the kitten's daily activities. Occasionally, Gerber's gushy expressions of her love for Maxie cloy, but her description of the strong emotional bonds between her mother and herself, despite the suffering they both endure, is skillfully rendered. Gerber has done an excellent job of conveying her mother's strength and humanity despite her weakened and often humiliating condition." --"Publishers Weekly"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781480442443
  • Publisher: Dzanc Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Dzanc Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1480442445
  • Publisher Date: 11 Sep 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 224


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