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“Feral, for all the wildness it implies, just means that an animal was abandoned by the system that created it.”

Poets Square: a Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

June 4, 2026 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I am very far behind my book goal for the year so far, so I did some TBR triage by moving shorter books up to the front of the request queue with my library. Poets Square is one of the first of that reshuffle to make its way to me and was a welcome bit of solace this past weekend. Poets Square is Courtney Gustafson’s story of how she accidentally inherited a feral colony of 30 cats which in turn led her to work in […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Cats, Courtney Gustafson, Poets Square

faintingviolet's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Cats, Courtney Gustafson, Poets Square ·
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