Invisible Kitties
'Cat was everywhere at once, splayed in all directions but too soft to get in our way…'
Discover this captivating, inventive debut, perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.
Every cat contains multitudes
When a young couple accidentally come into possession of a playful kitten, their daily routine (and cramped apartment) is turned upside down. Soon they find their peaceful existence forever altered.
Charting the couple’s ever-evolving relationship with cats – some they live with, others who exist only in their imagination – Invisible Kitties is a meditation on the quiet moments of everyday life and a celebration of cats in all their many magical, chaotic, extraordinary forms.
Yu Yoyo is an acclaimed poet and visual/audio artist from Sichuan, China. She started publishing poetry at the age of fourteen, and earned critical attention by the age of sixteen. Her work has featured in various literary journals and anthologies. She has published the poetry collections Seven Years (2012), Me as Bait (2018), wind can't (2019), and Cat is a Cloud (2021). She won the 2017 Henry Luce Translation Fellowship. Her poems have been translated into English, Korean, Russian, French, Japanese, and Swedish. A selection of her poems was translated and published by Poetry Translation Centre in her first English collection, My Tenantless Body (2019). Invisible Kitties is her first novel. She lives in Chengdu.