Cat by Laer, Rebecca van;

Series: Object Lessons;

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Product details:

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Date of Publication 2 October 2025
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9798765114629
Binding Paperback
No. of pages152 pages
Size 165x121x25 mm
Weight 138 g
Language English
Illustrations 1 b&w illustration

Short description:

"Drawing from a life shared with her partner and their cats, Rebecca van Laer shows that cats' supposed faults - their unreliability, laziness, and irreverence - are central to the joy of being a ""cat person."""

Long description:

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and Gus. Their loved ones see this as a step toward an inevitable future-first comes the house, then a dog, then a child. But what if they are just cat people?

Moving between memoir, philosophy, and pop culture, Cat is a playful and tender meditation on cats and their people. Van Laer considers cats' role in her personal narrative, where they are mascots of laziness and lawlessness, and in cultural narratives, where they appear as feminine, anarchic, and maladapted, especially in comparison to dogs.

From the stereotype of the 'crazy cat lady' to the joy of cat memes to the grief of pet loss, van Laer demonstrates that the cat-person relationship is free of the discipline and dependence required by parenting (and dog-parenting), creating a less hierarchical intimacy that offers a different model for love.