lcy_rose's review against another edition
4.0
Joyful nonfiction. This is not a heavy book, but is a delight to read. Following Henrietta, an intrepid cat who in her life covered 4 different continents, and visited more countries than most humans manage. Written by a New York Times international correspondent, you can feel the love he had for Henrietta (however unwittingly). It also gives the occasional exciting glimpse into the world events, crises, and turmoil he covered across the 70s-90s; Henrietta and family in unwitting tow.
It is not an in-depth exploration of being a foreign correspondent, of being an american abroad, or of world politics. But it is a love-letter to a joyful cat, sprinkled with literary and artistic references from each country they lived in. And it was a pleasure to read on a grey weekend.
It is not an in-depth exploration of being a foreign correspondent, of being an american abroad, or of world politics. But it is a love-letter to a joyful cat, sprinkled with literary and artistic references from each country they lived in. And it was a pleasure to read on a grey weekend.
drsarahgrace's review against another edition
5.0
My dad was college roommates with the author, which is how I found out about this book. It's a lot of fun.
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