02565cam a2200481 i 4500 1330873983 TxAuBib 20240613120000.0 240205t20242023||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024005251 9781420514308 142051430X (OCoLC)1420169059 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Arikawa, Hiro, 1972-, author. Mitorineko English. The goodbye cat : seven cat stories / Hiro Arikawa ; Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Seven cat stories. 7 cat stories. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. ©2023. 335 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print diverse voices Originally published in Japanese as Mitorineko by Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo, in 2021. The goodbye cat -- Bringing up baby -- Good father/bad father -- Cat island -- The night visitor -- Finding Hachi -- Life is not always kind. Seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa . Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a popular holiday island show a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat will not stop visiting her at night; and an elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other's lives forever. 20240613. In English, translated from the Japanese. Cats Fiction. Pets Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Families Fiction. Short stories. Japan Fiction. Gabriel, Philip, 1953-, translator. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices. TXKPL