50 Cats Talk Candidly About How They Became Who They Are.
A strange and wonderful book - renowned 'New Yorker' cartoonist and comedy writer Bruce Eric Kaplan's version of 'Behind The Music', but with cats.
Better known by the moniker "BEK" that accompanies his 'New Yorker' cartoons, Bruce Eric Kaplan is
famous for capturing the silly and absurd language of humans and placing it in the mouths of his sparsely drawn bunnies, birds, dogs, and cats. In 'The Cat That Changed My Life', BEK is at it again, as fifty cats talk about their lives and influences. Surprisingly (or not), we learn that cats have many of the same vanities, insecurities, ambitions, and excuses that people do.
For instance, there's Jelly Bean, from Verona, New Jersey, who felt hopelessly misunderstood and alienated until she met Dorothy, a cat down the block with the same predisposition to skittishness. Or Puffin, from Atlantic City, who tells us of her brief fling with a cat named Henry that thrust her into the ugly underworld of salt-water taffy addiction.
Based on interviews with fifty cats around the country, 'The Cat That Changed My Life' uncovers the secret lives of cats, in their own words.
