Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou Groundswell Speaker 2024 tactile and ancient craft

tactile and ancient craft

humour and torment

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red

- A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby- An elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be together for ever- A colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way- A family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father- A woman curses how her cat constantly visits her at night

after skirmishes that April day

Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou Groundswell Speaker 2024 tactile and ancient craftSomething terrible has happened. In a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child how do I talk about this? she wonders. The truth must become something beautiful. We must begin with a fairy tale. And so she begins to construct a beautiful fairy tale for her child one that begins with a strange baby boy whose nails grow too fast and whose skin smells of soil. As he grows from a boy into a man, a